Historicising Ancient Slavery

Kostas Vlassopoulos

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

Historicising Ancient Slavery

Kostas Vlassopoulos

In the series Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474487238

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A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societies

Offers a new theoretical framework for the study of ancient slavery
Employs a global historical perspective
Focuses on the agency of ancient slaves
Explores the link between slavery and historical change in antiquity
Examines the multiple contradictions within slave systems
Examines slavery from an economic, social, political and cultural perspective

Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave identity and the various networks and communities that slaves created or participated in.

Instead of seeing slaves merely as passive objects of exploitation and domination, his focus is on slave agency and the various ways in which they played an active role in the history of ancient societies. Vlassopoulos examines slavery not only as an economic and social phenomenon, but also in its political, religious and cultural ramifications. A comparative framework emerges as he examines Greek and Roman slaveries alongside other slaving systems in the Near East, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Historiographies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3. What Is Slavery? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
4. Slaving Strategies and Contexts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
5. Enslaved Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
6. Dialectical Relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7. The Slave View of Slavery: Slave Hopes and the Reality of Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8. Slaving in Space and Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
9. Conclusions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
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Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Classics & Ancient History

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474487238