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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 ; 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--Greece--History.
- Freed persons.
- Freed persons--Legal status, laws, etc--Greece--History.
- Civilization, Greco-Roman.
- Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (398 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- 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. R. Zelnick-Abramovitz investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features, by analyzing modes of manumission, its terminology, the group composition of manumittors and freed slaves, motivation, procedures and conditions of manumission, legal actions and laws concerning manumitted slaves, and the latter’s legal status and position in society. A very important work for all those interested in social history of ancient Greece , slavery, and manumission, as well as ancient historians and classical philologists.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- INTRODUCTION / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: DEFINITIONS AND APPROACHES / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- MANUMISSION: DIVERSITY AND SIMILARITY / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- MANUMITTORS AND MANUMITTED SLAVES / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- THE ACT OF MANUMISSION / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- LAWS AND LEGAL ACTIONS / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- THE REALITY OF FREEDOM / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- CONCLUSIONS / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- BIBLIOGRAPHY / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- GENERAL INDEX / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H. Schrijvers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-356) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-86861-9
- 9786610868612
- 1-4294-2730-2
- 90-474-0817-9
- 1-4337-0415-3
- OCLC:
- 182530194
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047408178 DOI
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