06-10-2014, 07:59 PM
Quote:Empires and Barbarians by Heather
Ah yes, here it is - although the map is French and the slavers are Slavic / Rus, so we're a long way from Rome! Plus the whole thing has the flavour of medieval geographer's tall tales about it!:
Heather on 'points de castration'
About slave markets - I'm sure somebody must have made a study of this! The numbers of slaves taken in the Gallic War, for example, would have surely needed some established infrastructure to process and distribute?
Individual merchants or consortia probably handled most of this, rather than the Roman state, and there were plenty of warehouses to keep them in (or, perhaps, cryptoporti under forums - the one in Arles was suggested as a 'slave barracks', I think). But while in the field, before the merchants took over, how would these masses of slaves be accommodated and hustled about the place?
Nathan Ross
