Reading Ancient Slavery
Editat de Edith Hall, Laura Proffitt, Richard Alstonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780715638682
ISBN-10: 0715638688
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bristol Classical Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0715638688
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bristol Classical Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Examines the social impact of ancient slavery from Homer, Aristotle, Greek drama, visual images, Roman poetry and imperial Roman dream interpretation
Notă biografică
Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.Edith Hall is Research Professor at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.Laura Proffitt is Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
Cuprins
Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Rereading Ancient Slavery, Richard Alston 2. Odysseus as Slave: The Ritual of Domination and Social Death in Homeric Society, Patrice Rankine 3. The Paradigms of Execution: Managing Slave Death from Homer to Virginia, Leanne Hunnings 4. Some Ancient Greek Images of Slavery, William G. Thalmann 5. Greek Representations of the Slave Body: A Conflict of Ideas? Kelly L. Wrenhaven 6. Slavery and Freedom in Euripides' Cyclops, Boris Nikolsky 7. Navigating Race, Class, Polis and Empire: The Place of Empirical Analysis in Aristotle's Account of Natural Slavery, S. Sara Monoson 8. Family, Slavery and Subversion in Menander's Epitrepontes, Laura Proffitt 9. The Slave as Minimal Addition in Latin Literature, William Fitzgerald 10. Slave Agency and Resistance in Martial, Deborah Kamen 11. Playing Ball with Zeus: Strategies in Reading Ancient Slavery through Dreams, Edith Hall Index
Descriere
This volume provides a sustained discussion of the theory and practice of handling ancient poetry and images in order to enhance our understanding of the way that slavery was experienced by both slaves and their owners in the ancient world.