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Peter Hunt - Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery - 9781405188050 - V9781405188050
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Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery

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Description for Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery Hardback. Classical slavery provides fascinating, complex, and engaging, albeit sometimes grim, topics for the historian. This book provides the political and historical context for Greek and Roman slavery and briefly surveys the institutions themselves. It conveys the interest of the field of ancient slavery to students of history. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBLA; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome

This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of enslavement to the decline of slavery after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The book uses a wide spectrum of types of evidence, and relies on concrete and vivid examples whenever possible.

Introductory chapters provide historical context and a clear and concise discussion of the methodological difficulties of studying ancient slavery. ... Read more

  • Organized by key themes in slave studies with in-depth classical case studies
  • Emphasizes Greek/Roman comparisons and contrasts
  • Features helpful customized maps
  • Topics range from demography to philosophy, from Linear B through the fall of the empire in the west
  • Features myriad types of evidence: literary, historical, legal and philosophical texts, the bible, papyri, epitaphs, lead letters, curse tablets, art, manumission inscriptions, and more

Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery provides a general survey of classical slavery and is particularly appropriate for college courses on Greek and Roman slavery, on comparative slave societies, and on ancient social history. It will also be of great interest to history enthusiasts and scholars, especially those interested in slavery in different periods and societies. 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405188050
SKU
V9781405188050
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Peter Hunt
Peter Alan Hunt is a professor at the University of Colorado where he teaches a wide variety of courses including Greek and Roman slavery. He has written two books: Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians and War and Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes’ Athens. His previous work on slavery includes chapters in the Cambridge World History of Slavery ... Read more

Reviews for Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery
"Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery is one of the first overviews of the lives of slaves in Greece and Rome aimed at a more general reader [...] an excellent book to use for an undergraduate course on the ancient world, either as a main text or as an adjunct to a more traditional textbook that focuses on the traditional narratives of ... Read more

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