SLAVERY
IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD (Hist7104)
WEEK
ONE
How might you define a slave? Is such a definition helpful?
How might you define a slave society? Does it matter?
What effect do modern debates and concerns have on the study of ancient slavery?
What type of sources and methods are there for studying ancient slavery, and what problems are associated with interpreting or using them?
BILBIOGRAPHY:
General works:
Patterson 1982; Turley 2000
Antiquity:
General : Finley (1973, 1980, 1981); De Ste Croix
1981; Westermann 1955;
Wiedemann 1987 (revised 1992, 1997)
Collections of essays:
Archer 1988; Bush 1996; Cartledge, Cohen and Foxhall 2002;
Dal Lago and Katsari 2008; Katsari and Dal Lago 2008 (these are different collections!)
Finley 1960 and 1987 (repr. 1999); Joshel and Murnaghan 1998
Papers from the conferences of the Institute for the Study of Slavery (
2000: Wiedemann/Gardner 2002
2001 Kleijwegt 2006
2006: Geary/Vlassopoulos 2009
Historiography:
Cartledge 2002 (both); Finley 1980 (repr. 1998); McKeown 2007;
Wiedemann 2000; Callahan, Horsley and Smith 1998 [various essays];
Paton/Webster (2009)
Comparative history: Dal Lago/Katsari 2008; Katsari/Dal Lago 2008;
Wickramasinghe 2005; Webster 2005
Modern representations on film:
Davis 2000; Winkler 2007
Sources:
Bradley 2000 (Apuleius)
Courtney 2001; Prag/Repath 2009 (Petronius)
Champlin 2005; Henderson 2001 (Phaedrus)
McCarthy 2000 (Plautus)
Fitzgerald 2000 (Latin lit.)
Morris 1998, Thompson 2002 (archaeology)
Petersen 2006 and D’Ambra and Métraux 2006 (art)
S. Lewis 1998/9 and 2002 (pottery)
Parkin 1992, Scheidel 2001 (demography)