Republican era slaves and freedmen

Publius Terentius Afer (; – ), better known in English as Terence (), was a playwright during the Roman Republic. He was the author of six comedies based on Greek originals by Menander or Apollodorus of Carystus. All six of Terence's plays survive complete and were originally produced between 166 and 160 BC.

Spartacus (; ) was a Thracian gladiator who was one of the escaped slave leaders in the Third Servile War, a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.

1st century BC Syrian-born Latin writer

3rd-century BC Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet

Crixus (died 72 BC) was a Gallic gladiator and military leader in the Third Servile War between the Roman Republic and rebel slaves. Born in Gaul, he was enslaved by the Romans under unknown circumstances and trained as a gladiator in Capua. His name means "one with curly hair" in Gaulish.

Roman comic poet (c. 220 BC – c. 166 BC)

1st-century BC Greek scholar

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secretary and personal assistant to Marcus Tullius Cicero

Roman aedile in 304 BC

a funerary monument of ancient Rome

ancient Roman courtesan, mistress of Cornelius Gallus, Mark Antony and Brutus

Roman actor

1st century BC Roman tragedian

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Greek freedman of Sylla

ancient Rome politician

ancient Greek agricultural writer of the 2nd century BC.

freedman of Pompey the Great

Salonia was the daughter of a Roman slave and freedman who lived during the mid-2nd century BC, and who was the second wife of Cato the Elder. She was the young daughter of the freedman Salonius who was an under-secretary to Cato the Elder. She is sometimes erroneously equated with the enslaved woman who, following the death of his first wife, secretly visited Cato in his bed.

ancient roman actress and dancer

freedwoman and highly ranked courtesan from ancient Rome