ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the review of some modern opinions of how warfare and breeding provided Roman slave-owners with slaves, noting certain problems which attend conventional views in the process. It describes the maintenance over time of the slave population in the Roman heartland, the city itself and Italy. The chapter discusses that the slaves imported to Rome and Italy under the Republic were predominantly male because female slaves were not needed for agricultural work and their work-roles in general were restricted. It explains that 'slavebreeding' is a legitimate term, as do others, but despite the term is frequently used to have been little attention devoted to defining precisely what it means. This chapter analyzes that all the inscriptional material is of relevance not only for its immediate chronological context, the early Imperial period in the main, but also for earlier ages once set alongside the sporadic literary testimony available from Sklavenfiguren des Plautus and Republican authors.
