Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5639783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Zelnick-Abramovitz |
| SIGNATURE | ZELNICK-ABRAMOVITZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity , by Sarah F. Derbew
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
Citizenship in Antiquity
The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus
This paper examines Herodotus’ use of verba dicendi as a narrative device. Investigating the application of verba dicendi in historiography, one of the earliest products of Greek prose, may teach us about the evolving conventions of this genre and help us detect its development and its divergence from Homer, as well as trace semantic developments across genres and periods. This paper focuses on the verb katalegein, a frequently applied verb of sp…
Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece
Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece
Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama
Ploutos, The God of the Oligarchs
According to a scholiast to the extant Ploutos, dated to 388 B.C., an earlier version of the play was produced in 408 B.C. Judging by the scholia and the lexicographers, differences between the two versions were small, yet the second version also manifests some deviations from the pattern of comedies written by Aristophanes in the last quarter of the fifth century B.C. Despite the structural and thematic variations, however, I argue that the ex…
Symposion 2017
Greek and Roman Terminologies of Slavery
The Greeks had no single generic term for ‘slave’, but a variety of terms for diverse relations of dependence and unfree people, many of which were also used to describe free people. Although much less complex, the Roman slave terms show similar features. Despite the ambiguity of the ancient terminology, we may make inferences about various aspects of unfreedom, about ambiguities in social and juridical distinctions, and about attitudes to menial…
Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions
In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context. Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Ta…
Freed slaves, their status and state control in Ancient Greece
Freed slaves in the ancient Greek world usually held the legal status of foreigners or non-citizen residents. The Greek states adopted various means to control social distinctions, and in many cases actively engaged in the process of manumission and its publication, thus applying public interests to private concerns. This is evident from many manumission documents, which allude to the involvement of political institutions in manumission, and to p…
Not Wholly Free
Not Wholly Free is a comprehensive study of manumission in the Greek world, based on a thorough appraisal of the extant evidence and on a careful examination of manumission terminology. R. Zelnick-Abramovitz investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features, by analyzing modes of manumission, its terminology, the group composition of manumittors and freed slaves, motivation, procedures and conditions of manumission, legal…
Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens
Rachel ZELNICK- ABRAMOVITZ, Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens ? - L'article examine l'opinion selon laquelle les relations entre patron et client, qui la Rome ancienne, n'existaient pas dans l'Athènes classique. Effectivement, une terminologie claire définissant de telles relations est absente des textes grecs, et ce que nous savons des relations interpersonnelles à Athènes ne concorde pas avec les modèles de patronage, tels qu'ils sont for…
Supplication and Request
The status of foreigners in the Greek world was always delicate; outside his own polis the foreigner was usually without rights or protection. These he could obtain by applying to the authorities in another polis. However, the sources do not provide a detailed description of the procedures established in these cases, and these procedures have to be inferred from the large number of inscriptions that refer to the granting of privileges to foreigne…
Not Wholly Free
Not Wholly Free is a comprehensive study of manumission in the Greek world, based on a thorough appraisal of the extant evidence and on a careful examination of manumission terminology. R. Zelnick-Abramovitz investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features, by analyzing modes of manumission, its terminology, the group composition of manumittors and freed slaves, motivation, procedures and conditions of manumission, legal…
Ploutos, The God of the Oligarchs
According to a scholiast to the extant Ploutos, dated to 388 B.C., an earlier version of the play was produced in 408 B.C. Judging by the scholia and the lexicographers, differences between the two versions were small, yet the second version also manifests some deviations from the pattern of comedies written by Aristophanes in the last quarter of the fifth century B.C. Despite the structural and thematic variations, however, I argue that the ex…
Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions
In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context. Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Ta…
Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens
Rachel ZELNICK- ABRAMOVITZ, Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens ? - L'article examine l'opinion selon laquelle les relations entre patron et client, qui la Rome ancienne, n'existaient pas dans l'Athènes classique. Effectivement, une terminologie claire définissant de telles relations est absente des textes grecs, et ce que nous savons des relations interpersonnelles à Athènes ne concorde pas avec les modèles de patronage, tels qu'ils sont for…
Citizenship in Antiquity
Freed slaves, their status and state control in Ancient Greece
Freed slaves in the ancient Greek world usually held the legal status of foreigners or non-citizen residents. The Greek states adopted various means to control social distinctions, and in many cases actively engaged in the process of manumission and its publication, thus applying public interests to private concerns. This is evident from many manumission documents, which allude to the involvement of political institutions in manumission, and to p…
Supplication and Request
The status of foreigners in the Greek world was always delicate; outside his own polis the foreigner was usually without rights or protection. These he could obtain by applying to the authorities in another polis. However, the sources do not provide a detailed description of the procedures established in these cases, and these procedures have to be inferred from the large number of inscriptions that refer to the granting of privileges to foreigne…
Supplication and Request
The status of foreigners in the Greek world was always delicate; outside his own polis the foreigner was usually without rights or protection. These he could obtain by applying to the authorities in another polis. However, the sources do not provide a detailed description of the procedures established in these cases, and these procedures have to be inferred from the large number of inscriptions that refer to the granting of privileges to foreigne…
Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens
Rachel ZELNICK- ABRAMOVITZ, Did Patronage Exist in Classical Athens ? - L'article examine l'opinion selon laquelle les relations entre patron et client, qui la Rome ancienne, n'existaient pas dans l'Athènes classique. Effectivement, une terminologie claire définissant de telles relations est absente des textes grecs, et ce que nous savons des relations interpersonnelles à Athènes ne concorde pas avec les modèles de patronage, tels qu'ils sont for…
Not Wholly Free
Not Wholly Free is a comprehensive study of manumission in the Greek world, based on a thorough appraisal of the extant evidence and on a careful examination of manumission terminology. R. Zelnick-Abramovitz investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features, by analyzing modes of manumission, its terminology, the group composition of manumittors and freed slaves, motivation, procedures and conditions of manumission, legal…
Freed slaves, their status and state control in Ancient Greece
Freed slaves in the ancient Greek world usually held the legal status of foreigners or non-citizen residents. The Greek states adopted various means to control social distinctions, and in many cases actively engaged in the process of manumission and its publication, thus applying public interests to private concerns. This is evident from many manumission documents, which allude to the involvement of political institutions in manumission, and to p…
Taxing Freedom in Thessalian Manumission Inscriptions
In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly, which record payments made to the poleis by manumitted slaves. In this original study the author explores the purpose of and the motivation behind these payments, apparently exacted as a federal impost, and places them in a wider historical and economic context. Based on a close examination of the epigraphic and literary evidence, Ta…
Greek and Roman Terminologies of Slavery
The Greeks had no single generic term for ‘slave’, but a variety of terms for diverse relations of dependence and unfree people, many of which were also used to describe free people. Although much less complex, the Roman slave terms show similar features. Despite the ambiguity of the ancient terminology, we may make inferences about various aspects of unfreedom, about ambiguities in social and juridical distinctions, and about attitudes to menial…
Symposion 2017
Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama
Ploutos, The God of the Oligarchs
According to a scholiast to the extant Ploutos, dated to 388 B.C., an earlier version of the play was produced in 408 B.C. Judging by the scholia and the lexicographers, differences between the two versions were small, yet the second version also manifests some deviations from the pattern of comedies written by Aristophanes in the last quarter of the fifth century B.C. Despite the structural and thematic variations, however, I argue that the ex…
Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece
Mapping Inequality in Ancient Greece
The Verb Katalegein in Herodotus
This paper examines Herodotus’ use of verba dicendi as a narrative device. Investigating the application of verba dicendi in historiography, one of the earliest products of Greek prose, may teach us about the evolving conventions of this genre and help us detect its development and its divergence from Homer, as well as trace semantic developments across genres and periods. This paper focuses on the verb katalegein, a frequently applied verb of sp…
Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity , by Sarah F. Derbew
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
Citizenship in Antiquity
Classical Antiquity Studies (12 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)