Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC

by Lewis, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780198769941
• ISBN10: 0198769946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-09-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

David M. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Ancient History, University of Nottingham

David M. Lewis hails from the Ards Peninsula in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, and studied at Durham University, gaining his PhD in 2012. Between 2013 and 2016 he worked at the University of Edinburgh, first as a postdoctoral fellow, and then as a Leverhulme Early Career fellow, then in 2016 took up the post of Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham. His work focuses on Greek socio-economic history in a wider Eastern Mediterranean context.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
List of Abbreviations
i. 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: Capturing the Relative Importance of Slavery to Ancient Economies
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 of the Wider Eastern Mediterranean World
9. Iron Age II Israel
10. Assyria: The 8th-7th Centuries BC
11. Babylonia: The 7th-5th Centuries BC
12. The Persian Empire
13. Punic Carthage
Part IV: Why Slavery?
14. Differentials in the Magnitude of Slaveholding: Towards an Understanding of Regional Variation
Appendix: The Meaning of oiketes in Classical Greek
Endmatter
Bibliography
General Index
Index locorum