Timeline for For how long were freed slaves in Ancient Rome supposed to wear a Pileus hat?
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| Dec 28, 2016 at 0:12 | vote | accept | Brasidas | ||
| Dec 27, 2016 at 23:56 | comment | added | TheHonRose | Too late - Paoli is already dead! ;) And Beard did admit she was guessing! | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 22:07 | comment | added | Marakai | So now we need a historian death match to see who is right. :D | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 16:48 | comment | added | TheHonRose | "At the Saturnalia, everyone,... wore a pilleus. On the other days a cap was the sign of a freedman." Rome: Its people, life and customs. Ugo Enrico Paoli 1940 trans 1963 | |
| Dec 27, 2016 at 16:35 | comment | added | TheHonRose | @Marakai sorry, I can't give a reference, it's just what I have understood from many years of reading, and I could well be wrong. | |
| Dec 26, 2016 at 6:21 | comment | added | Marakai | A source for your knowledge would be helpful. Not the least as none less than Mary Beard seems to contradict you. :) (yes, I know, argument by authority and all that) | |
| Dec 24, 2016 at 1:07 | history | answered | TheHonRose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |