Greek slave systems in their Eastern Mediterranean context, c.800-146 BC /
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[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
David M. Lewis.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First edition.
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Oxford :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2018.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction and brief history of the issue -- Part I : Prolegomena -- 1. Ownership and the articulation of slave status in Greek and near eastern legal practice -- 2. The riddle of freedom -- 3. Status distinctions in Greece and the ancient Near East -- 4. Slave societies, societies with slaves -- Part II : Epichoric slave systems of the Greek world -- 5. The archaic Greek world -- 6. Helotic slavery in classical Sparta -- 7. Classical Crete -- 8. Classical Attica -- Part III : Slave systems fo the wider eastern Mediterranean world -- 9. Iron age II Israel -- 10. Assyria -- 11. Babylonia -- 12. The Persian Empire -- 13. Punic Carthage -- Part IV : Why slavery? -- 14. Differentials in the magnitude of slaveholding.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The economic underpinnings of ancient Greek elite culture are explored in detail in this study of systems of slavery across the Greek world, which sets such practices in their broader Eastern Mediterranean context to highlight points of resemblance and contrast and shed light on the complex circumstances from which Greek slavery emerged.
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Title
Greek slave systems in their Eastern Mediterranean context, c.800-146 BC.