Greek slave systems in their Eastern Mediterranean context, c.800-146 BC

Greek slave systems in their Eastern Mediterranean context, c.800-146 BC / David M. Lewis.

The orthodox view of ancient Mediterranean slavery holds that Greece and Rome were the only 'genuine slave societies' of the ancient world, that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other societies, labelled as &...

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Main Author: Lewis, David M. (David Malcolm) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
To 622
Slavery > Greece > History.
Slavery > Middle East > History.
Slave trade > Mediterranean Region > History.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Slavery
Slave trade
Greece > History > To 146 B.C.
Middle East > History > To 622.
Middle East
Greece
Mediterranean Region
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and brief history of the issue
  • Part I : Prolegomena
  • 1. Ownership and the articulation of slave status in Greek and near eastern legal practice
  • 2. The riddle of freedom
  • 3. Status distinctions in Greece and the ancient Near East
  • 4. Slave societies, societies with slaves
  • Part II : Epichoric slave systems of the Greek world
  • 5. The archaic Greek world
  • 6. Helotic slavery in classical Sparta
  • 7. Classical Crete
  • 8. Classical Attica
  • Part III : Slave systems fo the wider eastern Mediterranean world
  • 9. Iron age II Israel
  • 10. Assyria
  • 11. Babylonia
  • 12. The Persian Empire
  • 13. Punic Carthage
  • Part IV : Why slavery?
  • 14. Differentials in the magnitude of slaveholding.

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