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Slaves and slavery in ancient Greece / Sara Forsdyke, University of Michigan

Forsdyke, Sara, 1967- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2021

xv, 277 Seiten : Illustratione, Karten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Slaves and slavery in ancient Greece / Forsdyke, Sara (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-107-03234-7 (hardback); 978-1-107-65889-9 (paperback)

978-1-139-50577-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2020058401

9781107658899

OCoLC: 1257785656     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/978-1-139-50577-2

NH 6860      Ähnliche Literatur

HT863

306.3/6209495

Basisklassifikation: 15.25 (Alte Geschichte) ; 15.27 (Griechische Welt) <Alte Geschichte>

*Griechenland (Altertum) ; Sklaverei ; Sklave      Zum Register

*Griechenland (Altertum) ; Sklaverei ; Sklave ; Sozialgeschichte      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Slavery -- Greece -- History -- To 1500 ; Greece -- History -- 146 B.C.-323 A.D

"In this book, Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves in ancient Greece. By focusing on the perspectives of slaves themselves, rather than their owners, she gives voice to a group that is often rendered silent by the historical record. By reading ancient sources 'against the grain,' and through careful deployment of comparative evidence from more recent slave-owning societies, she demonstrates that slaves engaged in a variety of strategies to deal with their conditions of enslavement, ranging from calculated accommodation to full-scale rebellion. Along the way, she demonstrates that slaves made a vital contribution to almost all aspects of Greek society. Above all, she shows that, despite often brutal treatment, slaves sometimes displayed great ingenuity in exploiting the tensions and contradictions within the system of slavery"--