Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave
resistance has typically been dismissed as historically
insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed
as wholly exceptional and resulting from peculiar historical
circumstances that had little to do with the intrinsic views or
organizational capabilities of the slaves themselves.In this book
Theresa Urbainczyk challenges the current orthodoxy and argues that
there were many more slave revolts than is usually assumed and they
were far from insignificant historically. She carefully dissects
ancient and modern interpretations to show that there was every
reason for the writers who recorded and re-recorded the slave
rebellions and wars to repress or to reconfigure any larger-scale
slave resistance as something other than what it was. Further, she
shows that we often have the accounts that we do because of the
happenstance of certain ancient authors having been particularly
interested in creating accounts of them for their own interests.
Urbainczyk argues that we need to look beyond the canonical sources
and episodes to see a bigger history of long-term resistance of
slaves to their enslavement.
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