Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery

ISBN-13: 9781405188067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str.

P. Hunt

Opis

Classical slavery provides fascinating, complex, and engaging, albeit sometimes grim, topics for the historian. Over the last generation, these have attracted the attention of many of the best minds in ancient social history. The issues involved have generated passionate debates; the challenge of the uneven evidence has elicited elegant arguments and painstaking investigations of tricky and obscure bodies of evidence. Although I have a couple of my own ideas to develop, the main aim of this book is to convey the excitement and interest of the field of ancient slavery to students of history. The topic of Greek and Roman slavery is a large one. Rather than write a long book I will be selective in my treatment. The general introduction will provide the political and historical context for Greek and Roman slavery and briefly survey the institutions themselves. Each chapter will open with a section on "Background and Methodology." These will orient the reader for the chapter's "Case Studies," one from Greece and one from Rome-and sometimes a Hellenistic case-that would constitute the bulk of the book. Some asymmetry will be unavoidable between the treatment of Greece and of Rome, since the questions our evidence allows us fruitfully to investigate are not the same in each case. For example, the chapter on slave families could treat slave families proper at Rome, but would have to focus on intimate slave-master relationships in Greece, since only a few passages mention slave families in classical Greece. In sum, interest will take a higher priority than coverage, although the reader should end up with a solid general knowledge of classical slavery.

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List of Illustrations vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Modern and Ancient References: Abbreviations xiii

1 Introduction and Historical Context 1

2 Definitions and Evidence 17

3 Enslavement 31

4 Economics 49

5 Politics 67

6 Culture 83

7 Sex and Family Life 99

8 Manumission and Ex–Slaves 117

9 Everyday Conflict 137

10 Revolts 155

11 Representations 173

12 Philosophy and Law 191

13 Decline and Legacy 209

References 221

Index 239

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Peter Alan Hunt is a professor at the University of Colorado where he teaches a wide variety of courses including Greek and Roman slavery. He has written two books: Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians and War and Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes Athens. His previous work on slavery includes chapters in the Cambridge World History of Slavery and the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries as well as the slavery chapter in the Cambridge World History, vol. 4.

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