Servus Quotes

“prodigy.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“In 80 CE, spectators took their seats in the Colosseum for the first time.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“Rex fact: “genius” is where we get the word genitals from! Learn Latin; Latin is fun!”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“Beautiful girl, you seek the kisses that I stole. Receive what I was not alone in taking; love. Whoever loves, may she fare well.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“One power that enslaved people had over their enslavers which really scared them was information and the ability to share it.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“it.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“It seems perfectly sane to me, if somewhat risky, to take a small holiday from slavery, coming home saying sorry, and hoping the resultant beating wasn’t too bad.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“Spartacus as a person was neither a Noble Savage nor a Subhuman Barbarian. He was just a man who wanted to be free.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“Komenos himself tried to make his way to Enna but was captured and, according to the writer Valerius Maximus, killed himself by holding his breath while his captors watched.14 I actually think that’s incredible, in both senses of the word.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“it’s an unanswerable question. Historians love an unanswerable question.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

“The last person to have been captured and enslaved and trafficked to the USA, Matilda McCrear, was alive during the Second World War.”
― Emma Southon, Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire