Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece

Bibliographic Data

ID19886502
AuthorsSara Forsdyke (University of Michigan, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-06-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueSlaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781139505772
OpenAlexW3166376653
ISBN9781139505772
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own perspectives, rather than those of their owners, giving a voice to a group that is often rendered silent by the historical record. By reading ancient sources 'against the grain,' and through careful deployment of comparative evidence from more recent slave-owning societies, she demonstrates that slaves engaged in a variety of strategies to deal with their conditions of enslavement, ranging from calculated accommodation to full-scale rebellion. Along the way, she establishes that slaves made a vital contribution to almost all aspects of Greek society. Above all, despite their often brutal treatment, they sometimes displayed great ingenuity in exploiting the tensions and contradictions within the system of slavery

Accommodation · Ancient history · Ingenuity · Political science · Reading (process) · Variety (cybernetics) · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology

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