by Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat translated by Marion Leopold
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-299-28373-5 | Paper: 978-0-299-28374-2 Library of Congress Classification HT863.A6313 2011 Dewey Decimal Classification 306.36209495
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves’ economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures. Accessible to both scholars and students, this book provides a detailed overview of the ancient evidence and the modern debates surrounding the vast and largely invisible populations of enslaved peoples in the classical world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jean Andreau is professor of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Raymond Descat is professor of history at the University of Bordeaux.
REVIEWS
“[This] excellent monograph . . . covers chattel slavery from Mycenean times to the end of the Roman empire. . . . Its focus is on the economic use and the everyday existence of slaves, particularly in classical Athens and republican and imperial Rome.”—Niall McKeown, The Classical Review
“A concise and elegant summary of what is known about classical slavery. The authors provide a rich and well-written argument, moving among various kinds of evidence, literary and material, and treating historiographical difficulties and scholarly controversies without getting lost in them. One of its great virtues is the constant interplay between Greek and Roman practices, providing a model of comparative study.”—Page duBois, author of Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy and Slaves and Other Objects
“Andreau and Descat have taken on a difficult task in their effort not only to discuss over one thousand years of slavery but also to synthesize and contextualize what is often very problematic source material, produced by two societies which were not terribly interested in any sort of systematic discussion of slavery. The end result is an eminently readable study, which also serves as an exemplary model of comparative history.”—New England Classical Journal
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1 What Is a Slave?
2 The Earliest Forms of Slavery
3 A Slave Population
4 The Slave and Economic Life
5 The Slave in the Household and in the City
6 Escaping Slavery
7 Slavery at the End of the Western Empire
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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by Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat translated by Marion Leopold
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-0-299-28373-5 Paper: 978-0-299-28374-2
Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves’ economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures. Accessible to both scholars and students, this book provides a detailed overview of the ancient evidence and the modern debates surrounding the vast and largely invisible populations of enslaved peoples in the classical world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jean Andreau is professor of history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Raymond Descat is professor of history at the University of Bordeaux.
REVIEWS
“[This] excellent monograph . . . covers chattel slavery from Mycenean times to the end of the Roman empire. . . . Its focus is on the economic use and the everyday existence of slaves, particularly in classical Athens and republican and imperial Rome.”—Niall McKeown, The Classical Review
“A concise and elegant summary of what is known about classical slavery. The authors provide a rich and well-written argument, moving among various kinds of evidence, literary and material, and treating historiographical difficulties and scholarly controversies without getting lost in them. One of its great virtues is the constant interplay between Greek and Roman practices, providing a model of comparative study.”—Page duBois, author of Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy and Slaves and Other Objects
“Andreau and Descat have taken on a difficult task in their effort not only to discuss over one thousand years of slavery but also to synthesize and contextualize what is often very problematic source material, produced by two societies which were not terribly interested in any sort of systematic discussion of slavery. The end result is an eminently readable study, which also serves as an exemplary model of comparative history.”—New England Classical Journal
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1 What Is a Slave?
2 The Earliest Forms of Slavery
3 A Slave Population
4 The Slave and Economic Life
5 The Slave in the Household and in the City
6 Escaping Slavery
7 Slavery at the End of the Western Empire
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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