Not wholly free : the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world

Not wholly free : the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world / by R. Zelnick-Abramovitz.

Based on a thorough investigation of the literary and epigraphic sources, this comprehensive study presents Greek manumission as a form of social relations, rooted in concepts of freedom and dependence and reflected by the terminology and the conditions of manumission.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 266.
Subjects:
To 146 B.C.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Greece > History.
Slavery > Greece > History.
Freed persons > Greece > History.
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc. > Greece > History.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Civilization
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Freed persons
Freed persons > Legal status, laws, etc.
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Sklave
Freilassung
Slavernij.
Vrijlating.
Griekse oudheid.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.
Greece
Griechenland > Altertum
History
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Description
Summary:Based on a thorough investigation of the literary and epigraphic sources, this comprehensive study presents Greek manumission as a form of social relations, rooted in concepts of freedom and dependence and reflected by the terminology and the conditions of manumission.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 385 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356) and indexes.
ISBN:9004145850
9789004145856
9781429427302
1429427302
1433704153
9781433704154
1280868619
9781280868610
9786610868612
6610868611
9047408179
9789047408178
ISSN:0169-8958 ;
Language:English.

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