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  1. Judy Kibler says

    Please clarify something for me concerning Pack Item 14 (Handout: Slavery in the First Century) for the FALL 2021 quarter. The second sentence in paragraph 4 in the left column states, “By the time Augustus became the Roman emperor in AD 63, there were some 3 million slaves (400,000 in the city of Rome) of a total population of 7.5 million Romans.”

    I am by no means an ancient Roman history scholar, but I cannot find a Caesar Augustus who BECAME the emperor in 63 AD. According to Wikipedia, the emperor in 63 AD was Nero. I understand the title Augustus applied to all Roman emperors for a period of time after Octavius, but the best I understand, the emperors who followed him are usually identified by better known names such as Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.

    Thank you.

    • Dwayne McCrary says

      Thank you for brining this to our attention. Augustus became emperor in 63 but it was in 63 BC not AD 63. We will make sure we double-check the dates provided more diligently.