The Representation Of Slavery In The Greek Novel

Author : William M. Owens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000754643

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The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel by William M. Owens Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre’s regular social degradation of these members of the elite. Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and stereotypes about slaves, Owens argues for an ideological division within the genre: the earlier novelists, Xenophon of Ephesus and Chariton, challenge and undermine elite stereotypes; the three later novelists, Longus, Achilles Tatius, and Heliodorus, affirm them. The critique of elite thinking about slavery in Xenophon and Chariton opens the possibility that these earlier authors and their readers included literate ex-slaves. The interests and needs of these authors and their readers shaped the emerging genre and not only made the protagonists’ slavery a key motif but also made slavery itself a theme that helped define the genre. The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel will be of interest not only to students of the ancient novel but also to anyone working on slavery in the ancient world.

Author : Stelios Panayotakis,Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789493194045

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Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel by Stelios Panayotakis,Michael Paschalis Pdf

The present volume contains revised versions of most of the papers that were delivered at RICAN 7, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on 27-28 May 2013. The focus of the conference was on the portrayal and function of male and female slaves and their masters/mistresses in the ancient novel and related texts; the complex relationship between these social categories raises questions about slavery and freedom, gender and identity, stability of the self and social mobility, social control and social death. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: enslavement of elite women in Chariton's Callirhoe and Stoic ideas of moral slavery in Dio Chrysostom (Hilton); reversal of social status and techniques of (self-)characterization in Chariton (De Temmerman); the interaction between implicit and explicit narratives of slavery in Chariton and its effect on the readers of the novel (Owens); the narratological, structural and symbolic centrality of slavery in Xenophon's Ephesiaka (Trzaskoma); the socio-historical dimensions of slavery and the prominent discourse on despotism in Iamblichus' Babyloniaka (Dowden); the balance between historical accuracy and fiction in the representation of slavery in Achilles Tatius (Billault); animals, human slaves and elite masters, and the presence of Rome in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); the distribution of slaves on the geographical, cultural and moral maps drawn in Heliodorus' Aithiopika (Montiglio); slave women and their relationships to their mistresses as positive and negative paradigms of love in Heliodorus' Aithiopika (Morgan and Repath); the freedman's world as a self-perpetuating and closed universe in Petronius' Satyrica (Bodel); beauty, slavery and the destabilization of societal norms and authority figures in Petronius' Satyrica (Panayotakis); the interaction between Roman comedy and elegy in the representation of the relationship of Lucius and Photis in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (May); a comparative analysis of the semantics and function of slavery-related terms in pseudo-Lucian's Onos and Apuleius' Metamorphoses (Paschalis); enslaved and free storytelling in the Life of Aesop and the history and evolution of the ancient fable tradition (Lefkowitz).

Author : Kelly L. Wrenhaven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 1472555732

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Reconstructing the Slave by Kelly L. Wrenhaven Pdf

"Although the importance of slavery to Greek society has long been recognised, most studies have primarily drawn upon representations of slaves as sources of evidence for the historical institution, while there has been little consideration of what the representations can tell us about how the Greeks perceived slaves and why. Although historical reality clearly played a part in the way slaves were represented, Reconstructing the Slave stresses that this was not the primary purpose of these images, which reveal more about how slave-owners perceived or wanted to perceive slaves than the reality of slavery. Through an examination of lexical, visual and literary representations of slaves, the book considers how the image of the slave was used to justify, reinforce and naturalize slavery in ancient Greece."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Ben Akrigg,Rob Tordoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107008557

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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama by Ben Akrigg,Rob Tordoff Pdf

Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.

Author : Page duBois
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226167879

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Slaves and Other Objects by Page duBois Pdf

Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this new book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity: the indispensability of slaves in ancient Greece. DuBois argues that every object and text in the world of ancient Greece bears the marks of slavery and the need to reiterate the distinction between slave and free. And yet the ubiquity of slaves in ancient societies has been overlooked by scholars who idealize antiquity, misconstrued by those who view slavery through the lens of race, and obscured by the split between historical and philological approaches to the classics. DuBois begins her study by exploring the material culture of slavery, including how most museum exhibits erase the presence of slaves in the classical world. Shifting her focus to literature, she considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes. She contends throughout that portraying the difference between slave and free as natural was pivotal to Greek concepts of selfhood and political freedom, and that scholars who idealize such concepts too often fail to recognize the role that slavery played in their articulation. Opening new lines of inquiry into ancient culture, Slaves and Other Objects will enlighten classicists and historians alike.

Author : Peter Hunt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405188050

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Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery by Peter Hunt Pdf

An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of enslavement to the decline of slavery after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The book uses a wide spectrum of types of evidence, and relies on concrete and vivid examples whenever possible. Introductory chapters provide historical context and a clear and concise discussion of the methodological difficulties of studying ancient slavery. The following chapters are organized around central topics in slave studies: enslavement, economics, politics, culture, sex and family life, manumission and ex-slaves, everyday conflict, revolts, representations, philosophy and law, and decline and legacy. Chapters open with general discussions of important scholarly controversies and the challenges of our ancient evidence, and case studies from the classical Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman periods provide detailed and concrete explorations of the issues. Organized by key themes in slave studies with in-depth classical case studies Emphasizes Greek/Roman comparisons and contrasts Features helpful customized maps Topics range from demography to philosophy, from Linear B through the fall of the empire in the west Features myriad types of evidence: literary, historical, legal and philosophical texts, the bible, papyri, epitaphs, lead letters, curse tablets, art, manumission inscriptions, and more Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery provides a general survey of classical slavery and is particularly appropriate for college courses on Greek and Roman slavery, on comparative slave societies, and on ancient social history. It will also be of great interest to history enthusiasts and scholars, especially those interested in slavery in different periods and societies.

Author : Jane Gardner,Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317791720

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Representing the Body of the Slave by Jane Gardner,Thomas Wiedemann Pdf

From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature.

Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032347

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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece by Sara Forsdyke Pdf

Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.

Author : Kelly L. Wrenhaven,University of St. Andrews. School of Classics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:229936812

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Re-constructing the Slave by Kelly L. Wrenhaven,University of St. Andrews. School of Classics Pdf

Author : Deborah Kamen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110651232

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Greek Slavery by Deborah Kamen Pdf

Slavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to research on this subject, surveying recent scholarly trends and controversies and suggesting future directions for research. Topics include regional variation in slave systems; the economics of slavery; the treatment of enslaved people; sex and gender; agency, resistance, and revolt; manumission; and representations, metaphors, and legacies of Greek slavery. Readers, including those interested in slavery of other time periods, will find this book an essential resource in learning about key issues in Greek slavery studies or in pursuing their own research.

Author : Ben Akrigg,Rob Tordoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139619417

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Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama by Ben Akrigg,Rob Tordoff Pdf

How did audiences of ancient Greek comedy react to the spectacle of masters and slaves? If they were expected to laugh at a slave threatened with a beating by his master at one moment but laugh with him when they bantered familiarly at the next, what does this tell us about ancient Greek slavery? This volume presents ten essays by leading specialists in ancient Greek literature, culture and history, exploring the changing roles and representations of slaves in comic drama from Aristophanes at the height of the Athenian Empire to the New Comedy of Menander and the Hellenistic World. The contributors focus variously on individual comic dramas or on particular historical periods, analysing a wide range of textual, material-culture and comparative data for the practices of slavery and their representation on the ancient Greek comic stage.

Author : Kelly L. Wrenhaven
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780715638026

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Reconstructing the Slave by Kelly L. Wrenhaven Pdf

Although the importance of slavery to Greek society has long been recognised, most studies have primarily drawn upon representations of slaves as sources of evidence for the historical institution, while there has been little consideration of what the representations can tell us about how the Greeks perceived slaves and why. Although historical reality clearly played a part in the way slaves were represented, Reconstructing the Slave stresses that this was not the primary purpose of these images, which reveal more about how slave-owners perceived or wanted to perceive slaves than the reality of slavery. Through an examination of lexical, visual and literary representations of slaves, the book considers how the image of the slave was used to justify, reinforce and naturalize slavery in ancient Greece.

Author : Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134970865

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Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas Wiedemann Pdf

Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. In addition, a thorough bibliography for each chapter, as well as an extensive index, make this a valuable source for scholars and students.

Author : William G. Thalmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801434793

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The Swineherd and the Bow by William G. Thalmann Pdf

Thalmann concentrates on the representation of slaves and on the dynamics of competition and family structure in the contest of the bow to interpret the Odyssey - and, implicity, epic poetry generally - as an intervention in the conflicts that surrounded the birth of the polis.

Author : Thomas E. J. Wiedemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004718535

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Greek and Roman Slavery by Thomas E. J. Wiedemann Pdf

Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. In addition, a thorough bibliography for each chapter, as well as an extensive index, make this a valuable source for scholars and students.