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Writing, enslavement, and power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE-300 CE / edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candida R. Moss, Joseph A. Howley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin literature--Themes, motives.
- Latin literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Enslaved persons' writings.
- Slavery--Rome--History.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (382 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- This volume assembles twenty-two scholars from the fields of classics and early Christian studies to interrogate the intersections between writing and enslavement around the Roman Mediterranean. Drawing upon methods developed in scholarship on book history and Atlantic slavery, the authors demonstrate the myriad ways in which the material and intellectual contributions of enslaved literary workers were vital to the composition, editing, copying, circulation, reading, and preservation of Roman texts.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 bce -300 ce
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Sources
- Map
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- Method and Approach
- The Roman Mediterranean
- Roman Writing
- Roman Slavery
- Comparative Intersections
- Part One: Writing Power/lessness
- 3: Despotics
- The Ancient Arts of Mastery
- Mastery and Reading
- Writing (and) Enslavement
- Conclusion
- 4: Gender
- Enslavement, Gender, and Erasure
- Archival Imbalances: The Death of the Lectrix
- Enslavement, Gender, and the Aesthetics of the Roman Book
- Coda: Gender and Over-Reading
- 5: Disability
- Elite Impairment and Enslaved Accommodators
- Prosthetic Pains
- Textual Accommodations
- 6: Language and Ethnicity
- Linguistic Difference
- Navigating Multilingualism
- Language and Literary Production
- Part Two: Doing Things with Writing
- 7: Introduction: Banausia
- 8: Grammar
- Enslaved Individuals and Grammatical Skills
- Enslaved People as a Grammatical Curiosity
- Enslaved Names as a "Mediterranean Grammar"
- 9: Numeracy
- Rhetoric vs. Reality
- Rhetoric and Reality
- 10: Divination
- Divination, Writing, and Roman-ness
- Writing and Enslavement in Mantic Contexts
- Enslaved Diviners and Ambiguous Power
- 11: Justice
- How Can God(s) Enact Justice for the Enslaved?
- Legal Writings, Critical Race Theory, and Ancient Enslavement
- The Letters of Paul: Justice, Righteousness, and the Enslaved Paul
- Callirhoe : A Petition to an Unjust Goddess
- Curses, Justice, and Injustice
- Conclusions
- Part Three: Doing Things to Writing
- 13: Notes
- Epistemologies of Bureaucracy
- Extensibility and Its Failures
- Fragmentation
- 14: Maintenance.
- The Mistreatment of Books
- Preventing and Remedying the Decay of Books
- Storage, Transportation, and Use of Books
- Who Maintained Books?
- 15: Editing
- Loyal Slaves and Faithful Editions
- Enslaved corpora and the Editor's Masterly Hand
- Erasing the Enslaved Editor
- 16: Collection
- Enslaved Knowledge Workers
- Archives of Enslavement
- Unfree Collectors?
- Conclusion: Enslavement, Collection, and Empire
- Part Four: Writing Aesthetics
- 18: Rhetorics
- The Block Is Hot: Slavery and Manumission in Demosthenes 36
- Rhetoric, Writing, and Power in the Roman World: Controlling Acte
- 19: Letters
- Letters in Hand
- Letter-Carriers
- On the Road: Gaps and Surveillance
- Scenes of Delivery
- Letters on Arrival
- Conclusion: Blending In
- 20: Brevity
- Afterword: Untimeliness
- The Rememory of Domination, the Book, and the Enslaved
- The Untimeliness of the Study of Slavery
- A Positive Good?
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 14, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-776997-7
- 0-19-776998-5
- 0-19-776999-3
- OCLC:
- 1527804616
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