Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world edited by David M. Lewis, Mirko Canevaro and Douglas Cairns

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, David M., editor.

Canevaro, Mirko, editor.

Cairns, Douglas, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery

Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Greece--History--To 1500.

Slavery.

Honor--Greece--History--To 1500.

Honor.

Slavery--Greece--History.

Honor--Greece--History.

Greece.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first book-length joint treatment of honour and slavery, drawing on new approaches to the philosophy, psychology and sociology of honour

"For the last four decades, the trend in ancient Greek history has been to view the intersection of slavery and honour wholly in terms of dishonour, with slaves often seen as standing outside the dynamics of honour and recognition. Drawing on new approaches to the philosophy, psychology and sociology of honour, this volume showcases thirteen essays by established and upcoming scholars in which a more complex reality is illustrated. Whilst slavery and dishonour did often go together in the Greek world, slaves could be both the recipients and bestowers of honour across a range of contexts within and beyond the household"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Honour and the rhetoric of slavery in Herodotus / Douglas Cairns

Greek slavery and honour : institutional and prototypical approaches / David M. Lewis

The space in between : honourable slaves and the theory of natural slavery / Ulrike Roth

Helot dishonour and Spartan identity / Gabriel Cabral Bernardo

Slavery, honour and ideology in Homer’s world / David Tandy

Recognition and imbalances of power : honour relations and slaves’ claims vis-à-vis their masters / Mirko Canevaro

Negotiating respect and oikeiotēs : the honour of Menander’s slaves / Bianca Mazzinghi Gori

Honour as a privilege : slave hierarchies and master–slave relationships in the household-management texts of Classical Athens / Jason Porter

The multiple honours of enslaved people in ancient Greek societies / Kostas Vlassopoulos

Whose honour? Hybris, slavery and the Athenian law once more / Nick Fisher

‘Privileged’ slaves and honour in Classical Athens / Deborah Kamen

Chosen by the gods : enslaved leaders and religious honour / Ambra A. Ghiringhelli

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed August 05 2025).

Other Format:

Print version Slavery and honour in the ancient Greek world

ISBN:

9781399514583

139951458X

9781399514590

1399514598

9781399514576

1399514571

OCLC:

1535127006

Publisher Number:

CIPO000239010

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access