Greek Slave Systems in Their Eastern Mediterranean Context, C.800-146 BC

ISBN-13: 9780198769941 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str.

David M. Lewis

Opis

The economic underpinnings of ancient Greek elite culture are explored in detail in this study of systems of slavery across the Greek world, which sets such practices in their broader Eastern Mediterranean context to highlight points of resemblance and contrast and shed light on the complex circumstances from which Greek slavery emerged.

Recenzje

While previous scholarship assumed that slavery in the Near East was marginal, Lewis shows that slaves constituted a major part of elite portfolios in many of these societies. This has revolutionary implications for the comparative study of Mediterranean and Near Eastern history in antiquity.

O autorze

David M. Lewis is Lecturer in Greek History and Culture at the University of Edinburgh. He hails from the Ards Peninsula in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, and studied at Durham University, gaining his PhD in 2012. Between 2013 and 2016 he worked at the University of Edinburgh, first as a postdoctoral fellow, and then as a Leverhulme Early Career fellow, then in 2016 took up the post of Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham. He returned to Edinburgh to take up his current post in 2018. His work focuses on Greek socio-economic history in a wider Eastern Mediterranean context.