Greek and Roman Slaveries

Eftychia Bathrellou is Researcher at the Centre for Classical Studies at the University of Lisbon (CEC-FLUL). She is the author of articles on Greek comedy, particularly the Athenian poet Menander, and on representations of slaves and slavery in Greek drama.
 
Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. His research is focused on the study of ancient slavery, ancient globalization, intercultural relations, political thought, historiography, and comparative history.

Greek and Roman Slaveries
 
Slavery was foundational to Greek and Roman societies, affecting nearly all of their economic, social, political, and cultural practices. Greek and Roman Slaveries offers a rich collection of literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and archaeological sources, including many unfamiliar ones. This sourcebook ranges chronologically from the archaic period to late antiquity, covering the whole of the Mediterranean, the Near East, and temperate Europe.
 
Readers will find an interactive and user-friendly engagement with past scholarship and new research agendas that focuses particularly on the agency of ancient slaves, the processes in which slavery was inscribed, the changing history of slavery in antiquity, and the comparative study of ancient slaveries.
 
Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on ancient slavery, as well as courses on slavery more generally, this sourcebook's questions, cross-references, and bibliographies encourage an analytical and interactive approach to the various economic, social, and political processes and contexts in which slavery was employed while acknowledging the agency of enslaved persons.

List of Figures and Maps ix
 
Note to the Reader xi
 
Acknowledgements xiii
 
Abbreviations xv
 
Introduction 1
 
1 What Is Slavery? 4
 
2 Studying Slavery: The Variety of Evidence and Its Interpretative Challenges 30
 
3 Living with Slavery and Its Consequences 56
 
4 Slaving Strategies 85
 
5 Masters and Slaves 116
 
6 Free and Slave 139
 
7 Enslaved Persons and Their Communities 162
 
8 Slavery and the Wider World 194
 
9 Experiencing and Resisting Enslavement 222
 
10 After Slavery: Manumission, Freedmen, and Freedwomen 250
 
11 Slavery and Historical Change 277
 
12 Comparing Ancient Slaveries 305
 
Bibliography 337
 
Index of Passages Cited 358
 
Index of Places and Peoples 364
 
Index of Names 368
 
Thematic Index 376