The seminar deals with questions of individual freedom rights, personal obligations and collective decision making as granted by Roman Citizenship in the Roman Republic and Empire. The status of Roman Citizen might have protected the right to bodily integrity and fair trial, issues of personal property, family and inheritance issues and even to a certain extent freedom of religion and cultural autonomy. Therefore, political and individual freedom as the most important character of Roman Citizenship and Roman Citizens were propagated in the official discourse of the time. Relevant source texts will show if and how Roman Citizenship indeed protected personal and collective freedom rights in the  Roman society which has to be considered as hierarchic and closely regulated by moral codes through social disapproval and legal sanctions.