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Reading Ancient Slavery (Paperback)
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Evidence relating to the 'real world' of antiquity - inscriptions,
historiography and legal speeches - has dominated studies of
ancient Greek and Roman slavery, although providing few direct
accounts by slaves of their subjective experiences. Yet the
imaginative fictions produced by the ancient psyche in its
literature and art provide many representations and discussions of
what it felt like to be a slave. 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. Twelve essays by an international team of
specialists develop a variety of theoretical positions, reading
practices and interpretive strategies for recovering the
psychological, emotional and social impact of ancient slavery from
Homer, Aristotle, Greek drama, visual images, Roman poetry and
imperial Roman dream interpretation.
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