TORTURE ON SLAVES AS A UNIVERSAL TRAJECTORY OF ROMAN AND GREEK LAW

In addition to the many positive achievements of Roman law, there are some who are negative. They must not be forgotten precisely because they testify to the universality of Roman law. One of them is torture on slaves. Slavery officially became illegal at the beginning of the 21st century, but trafficking in human beings is still used today for forced labor. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate, through the similarities of Roman and Greek Law facts of slavery, how much the same elements can be seen in the modern-day understanding of slavery. This will be done on the basis of classic sources: "The Digest" and the speeches of famous Athenian logographers Demosthenes, Lysias and Antiphon.