Before Mass Incarceration: Prisons and Prisoners in the Ancient Greco-Roman World

Many of the most famous people from the ancient Greco-Roman world are said to have been imprisoned: Socrates, Demosthenes, John the Baptist, Jesus, Saints Paul, Peter, and Perpetua, to name just a few. How did ancient prisons work? Were they like prisons today? What were they used for? And what do we learn about ancient—and modern—societies by studying prisons in classical Greece and Rome? This talk attempts to answer some of these questions by focusing on ancient prison narratives from Greece, Rome, and Egypt. This event is part of the Common Course, The Making of Citizenship: Local, National, Global.

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