Silvia Bekavac, Željko Miletić. GENESIS, STRUCTURE AND ROLE OF FREEDMEN BODIES OF SEVIRI AND AUGUSTALES

Abstract

A book by the assistant professor Silvia Bekavac, PhD, Department of Art History, and her mentor on the postgraduate level, the associate professor Željko Miletić, PhD, Department of Archaeology, at the University of Zadar, represents a new study on the life of a particular group of freedmen from the perspective of their social life in the context of gaining influence. Per authors’ words, the book was born out of problems that Bekavac had encountered while writing her thesis Rimska religija i kultovi u društvenoj strukturi pretkršćanske Salone [Roman Religion and Cults in Social Structure of the pre-Christian Salona], which can be replicated on the territory of Roman Dalmatia, and also throughout the Empire.