A light-hearted approach to life as a slave in ancient Greece.

Product Description: You are about to experience the life of a slave at first hand in Ancient Greece!This interactive series will enthrall young and reluctant readers (Ages 8-12) by making them part of the story, inviting them to become the main character...read more

A light-hearted approach to life as a slave in ancient Greece.

Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery in antiquity, the same cannot be said for slave resistance in this period. Slave revolts have typically been dismissed as historically insignificant or exceptional events resulting from peculiar historical circumstances. In the first in-depth work on this topic to be published in two decades, Theresa Urbainczyk challenges much current thinking by looking beyond the canonical sources to reveal a longer and far more significant history of slave resistance. Her engaging, up-to-date account considers the circumstances of these revolts, looks at slave leaders and how they are recorded in history, explores the aims of slaves, examines attitudes toward freedom and slavery, and more. Dissecting both ancient and modern sources, she finds that the writers who recorded and rerecorded these slave rebellions and wars had every reason to repress large-scale resistance or to reconfigure it as something other than what it was. Slave Revolts in Antiquity also addresses one of the most important issues of our own time: the meaning of freedom itself.Copub: Acumen Publishing Limited

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Plato's Law of Slavery in Its Relation to Greek LawAuthor: Morrow, Glenn R./ PlatoPublisher: William s Hein & CoPublication Date: 2002/06/01Number of Pages: 140Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 2002073657

Product Description: The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation. '

A systematic study of the institution of slavery in relation to the ancient Greek respect for human dignity, the liberal arts in classical Rome, and the concept of the faithful slave in Christian thought.