This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the
five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each
novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens
explores the significance of the genre's regular social degradation
of these members of the elite. Reading the novels in the context of
social attitudes and stereotypes about slaves, Owens argues for an
ideological division within the genre: the earlier novelists,
Xenophon of Ephesus and Chariton, challenge and undermine elite
stereotypes; the three later novelists, Longus, Achilles Tatius,
and Heliodorus, affirm them. The critique of elite thinking about
slavery in Xenophon and Chariton opens the possibility that these
earlier authors and their readers included literate ex-slaves. The
interests and needs of these authors and their readers shaped the
emerging genre and not only made the protagonists' slavery a key
motif but also made slavery itself a theme that helped define the
genre. The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel will be of
interest not only to students of the ancient novel but also to
anyone working on slavery in the ancient world.
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