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.
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.
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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