Not wholly free : the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world / by R. Zelnick-Abramovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 266.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 266

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Greece--History.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--Greece--History.

Slavery.

Freed persons--Legal status, laws, etc.

History.

Freed persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.

Greece.

Freed persons--Greece--History.

Freed persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Greece--History.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Civilization.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Physical Description:

vi, 385 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Summary:

Not Wholly Free is a Comprehensive study of manumission in the Greek world, based on a thorough appraisal of the extant evidence and on a careful examination of manumission terminology. The author investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features and presents manumission as a manifestation of social concepts and relations, involving reciprocity and ongoing obligations.

The variety of sources used makes Not Wholly Free a very important work for all those interested in social history of ancient Greece, slavery, and manumission, as well as for ancient historians and classical philologists.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Slavery and Freedom: Definitions and Approaches 15

1.1 Some Modern Definitions 16

1.2 Ancient Definitions 27

1.3 Philia, Reciprocity, and Exchange 39

1.4 Vertical Relations and Philia 47

1.5 Philia, Slavery and Manumission 50

Chapter 2 Manumission: Diversity and Similarity 61

2.1 The Evidence 61

2.2 Modes of Manumissions 69

2.3.1 Apeleutheros and apeleutheroun 107

2.3.2 Exeleutheros and exeleutheroun 120

Chapter 3 Manumittors and Manumitted Slaves 130

3.1 Manumittors 130

3.2 Manumitted Slaves 153

Chapter 4 The Act of Manumission 184

4.1 Procedures 184

4.2 Conditions 207

4.2.1 The Purchase of Freedom 208

4.2.2 Deferred Manumission 222

4.3 The Prostates 248

4.4 The Marks of Freedom 263

Chapter 5 Laws and Legal Actions 273

5.1 The Dike Apostasiou 274

5.2 The Aphairesis eis Eleutherian Procedure 292

5.3 'Laws on Manumitted Slaves' 301

Chapter 6 The Reality of Freedom 307

6.1 Obligations and Rights 308

6.2 Social Position 319.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-356) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004145850

OCLC:

60589204