Greek and Roman Slaveries / Eftychia Bathrellou, Kostas Vlassopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bathrellou, Eftychia, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, author.

Vlassopoulos, Kōstas, author.

Series:

Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history.

Blackwell sourcebooks in ancient history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Rome--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Greece--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st.

Place of Publication:

Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.

Summary:

Greek and Roman Slaveries Slavery was foundational to Greek and Roman societies, affecting nearly all of their economic, social, political, and cultural practices. Greek and Roman Slaveries offers a rich collection of literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and archaeological sources, including many unfamiliar ones. This sourcebook ranges chronologically from the archaic period to late antiquity, covering the whole of the Mediterranean, the Near East, and temperate Europe. Readers will find an interactive and user-friendly engagement with past scholarship and new research agendas that focuses particularly on the agency of ancient slaves, the processes in which slavery was inscribed, the changing history of slavery in antiquity, and the comparative study of ancient slaveries. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on ancient slavery, as well as courses on slavery more generally, this sourcebook's questions, cross-references, and bibliographies encourage an analytical and interactive approach to the various economic, social, and political processes and contexts in which slavery was employed while acknowledging the agency of enslaved persons.

Contents:

Introduction ; 1 What Is Slavery? ; 2 Studying Slavery: The Variety of Evidence and Its Interpretative Challenges ; 3 Living with Slavery and Its Consequences ; 4 Slaving Strategies ; 5 Masters and Slaves ; 6 Free and Slave ; 7 Enslaved Persons and Their Communities ; 8 Slavery and the Wider World ; 9 Experiencing and Resisting Enslavement ; 10 After Slavery: Manumission, Freedmen, and Freedwomen ; 11 Slavery and Historical Change ; 12 Comparing Ancient Slaveries.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-118-96932-4

1-118-96929-4

OCLC:

1324553879