After thawing the prince out, the village learns that he had been ambushed by the evil Maccabee clan because their chief desired Macaroon’s fiance.
The first book of the Ferri and Conrad era is “Asterix and the Picts”, which sees the Gaulish duo stumble across the frozen body of a banished prince named Macaroon.
While any reader might be nervous that such a famous book was being written by someone other than the creative team both Ferri and Conrad had been mentored and hand picked by Uderzo to continue the books. While Uderzo had stated that he wanted the Asterix books to end with his death, certain legal troubles with his family and the terms of him selling the rights to the Asterix books to Hachette in 2011 allowed the books to continue on without the original creative team.įrom this point on the books would be written by Jean-Yves Ferri and drawn by Didier Conrad. but historical Roman attitudes about outsiders and lineage makes it so unlikely as to be preposterous.This week we close out our look at the Asterix books with “Asterix and the Picts”, “Asterix and the Missing Scroll”, “Asterix and the Chariot Race”, “Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter”, and “Asterix and the Griffin”.Īfter the publication of “Asterix and the Great Crossing” Uderzo effectively retired and ceased to be the writer and artist of the Asterix books. We can't prove a negative, so we can't know that there wasn't some obscure black Senator in Rome of whom all records were destroyed. I can't see how you could do that as someone of a different race your non-Roman characteristics would mark you as too different, and we have absolutely zero evidence of black Emperors or Senators during Rome's history. Of course over time it worked, and Roman Senators would look back with pride at having been a descendant of Cicero, who had married into nobility, etc. You could move your family to Rome, as Cicero's family had moved there, and learn oratory and manners, etc, so you would be indistinguishable from other Senators yet still be treated differently because you were a New Man. That does not mean a provincial with citizenship had the same advantages as a Roman of a senatorial family with ancient patrician and plebian blood.
Over time Rome obviously expanded and provincials got the citizenship, etc, Rome was very good at romanising the provinces. There were no black or Asian Romans at the founding of Rome, and that's a pretty big give away. if you were black or Chinese), because obviously you could never blend in and pass yourself off as of Roman lineage to any degree. While many people with provincial upbringing could blend into Rome over time, and cover up their background to some degree, that would have been functionally impossible for someone of an actually different race (e.g. If your lineage wasn't seen as the purest Roman then you were going to face discrimination the degree to which that was true varied depending on the era we are discussing obviously. It was why Romans often tried to wash away the stain of their less than perfect heritage (witness the behavior of various emperors such as Caligula or Vespasian). Romans didn't have a concept of race as we understand it today, but they did have a concept of lineage and they definitely discriminated on the basis of it. Personally I doubt very much that black slaves and freedman would have been at all common outside the occasional arena performer, but obviously we can't prove the exact numbers. We know the answer because of another question, which is "how did Romans treat non-Romans?" Since the answer was very badly, we have our answer without needing to get into it further. The thing is, we don't need to know what % of Romans were black to answer the question of whether they were treated worse.
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