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Reading Ancient Slavery
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Studies of ancient slavery have tended to rely on particular types of evidence – inscriptions, legal sources, and historical accounts – whereas literary imaginings of slavery have been relatively under-exploited. Yet these sources illuminate for us the ideologies that allowed slavery to be practised throughout antiquity with virtually no opposition and further to understand how and why slavery was debated and, to some extent, experienced by Greeks and Romans. This volume provides a sustained discussion of the theory and practice of handling ancient literature and art in order to enhance our understanding of ancient slavery.
Twelve essays by an international team of specialists develop a variety of theoretical positions, reading practices and interpretive strategies for recovering the psychological and social impact of ancient slavery from Homer, Aristotle, Greek drama, visual images, Roman poetry and imperial Roman dream interpretation.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Rereading Ancient Slavery, Richard Alston
2. Odysseus as Slave: The Ritual of Domination and Social Death in Homeric Society, Patrice Rankine
3. The Paradigms of Execution: Managing Slave Death from Homer to Virginia, Leanne Hunnings
4. Some Ancient Greek Images of Slavery, William G. Thalmann
5. Greek Representations of the Slave Body: A Conflict of Ideas? Kelly L. Wrenhaven
6. Slavery and Freedom in Euripides' Cyclops, Boris Nikolsky
7. Navigating Race, Class, Polis and Empire: The Place of Empirical Analysis in Aristotle's Account of Natural Slavery, S. Sara Monoson
8. Family, Slavery and Subversion in Menander's Epitrepontes, Laura Proffitt
9. The Slave as Minimal Addition in Latin Literature, William Fitzgerald
10. Slave Agency and Resistance in Martial, Deborah Kamen
11. Playing Ball with Zeus: Strategies in Reading Ancient Slavery through Dreams, Edith Hall
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2011 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9780715638682 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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