Historicising Ancient Slavery (Paperback)

Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave identity and the various networks and communities that slaves created or participated in. Instead of seeing slaves merely as passive objects of exploitation and domination, his focus is on slave agency and the various ways in which they played an active role in the history of ancient societies. Vlassopoulos examines slavery not only as an economic and social phenomenon, but also in its political, religious and cultural ramifications. A comparative framework emerges as he examines Greek and Roman slaveries alongside other slaving systems in the Near East, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Kostas Vlassopoulos
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-8722-1
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-4744-8722-X
Barcode:	9781474487221

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