Historicising Ancient Slavery

AvKostas Vlassopoulos

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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A new framework for studying slaves and slavery in ancient societiesOffers a new theoretical framework for the study of ancient slaveryEmploys a global historical perspectiveFocuses on the agency of ancient slavesExplores the link between slavery and historical change in antiquityExamines the multiple contradictions within slave systemsExamines slavery from an economic, social, political and cultural perspectiveInformed 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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Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-24
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:424 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474487221

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Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Forntidens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012) for his contribution to the field of Classics. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), Greeks and Barbarians (2013) and co-author of My Whole Life: Stories from the Everyday Life of Ancient Slaves (2020). He is co-editor of Slavery, Citizenship and the State (2009), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015), Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (2016).

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Contents AcknowledgementsAbbreviations 1. Introduction2. Historiographies The formation of the dominant paradigm in the study of ancient slavery The global study of slavery Recent developments in the study of ancient slavery 3. What is slavery? An instructive case: early medieval slavery and ‘serfdom’ The conceptual systems of slavery 4. Slaving contexts and strategies Slaving strategies Slaving contexts Slave-making 5. Enslaved persons Identification modes and forms of relationships Categorisation, self-understanding and groupness 6. Dialectical relationships The master-slave relationship The free-slave relationshipThe relationships within slave communities 7. The slave view of slavery: slave hopes and the reality of slavery Modalities of slavery Exploring slave hopes under slavery The slave hope for freedom 8. Slaving in space and time Epichoric systems of slaving Societies with slaves and slave societies Accounting for change The agency of enslaved persons and historical change 9. Conclusions Bibliography