WEEK FOUR

SLAVES AT WORK

Sources: Wiedemann Sourcebook chs. 5, 7, 8; Gardner/Wiedemann ch. 4; Austin and Vidal-Naquet ch. 5 espec. nos. 73-8; Dillon/Garland ch. 11; Lomas 1996 ch 6; Sherk TDGR 6 nos. 171-3, 178; Xenophon, Oeconomicus

For attitudes to work etc.: Dio Chrysostom, Discourse 7: Euboicus (Loeb vol. 1) with Brunt 1973; Lucian, ‘On Salaried Jobs in Great Houses’ and ‘Apology for “On Salaried Jobs in Great Houses”’ (Loeb vols. III and VI)

Questions to think about in relation to Athens and/or Rome:

What sort of jobs/functions do slaves fulfil? Are any exclusive to or typical of slaves? Do slaves do low status jobs, or do jobs done by slaves acquire low status? What value is placed upon such work by either masters or slaves? Do attitudes to work differ between slaves and the free poor? What is the status of an ‘employee’? How do slave-owners seek to manage their slaves? To what extent are masters motivated by economic, social or other aims in their use or treatment of slaves? Is it possible to assess the overall economic importance of slaves in agriculture or any other area?

For Athens: Garlan 1988 ch. 1; Jones in Finely 1960 ch. 1; Finley 1981; Tod 1901/2; MacDowell 1978, 155-9; Hopper (1979); Cohen 1992, esp. ch. 4 (with Silver 2006); Trevett 1992 ch. 1; Cartledge et al. (2002) esp. chs. 10-12

On agriculture: Jameson 1977/8, Wood 1988; Nussbaum 1960; de Ste Croix 1981 App. 5; Sallares 1991; Burford 1993 ch. 5; Thompson 2002 ch. 2; Silver 2006

Those “living apart”: Fisher in Katsari/Dal Lago 2008 ch. 8; Kazakévich 2008

Public slaves: Lewis 1990 pp. 254-8; Martin 1991 (in teaching collection); Hall 1989

For wages and prices, see Loomis 1998

For Rome: Bradley 1994 ch.4 and 1987 ch. 1

Urban/Domestic: Joshel 1992; Treggiari 1975 (both); George 1997 (both) and in D’Ambra and Métraux 2006; Flory 1978; Garland 1992; Jongman 2003; Hasegawa 2005

Agriculture: Rathbone 1981, 1983; Foxhall 1990; Thompson 2002 chs. 3-4; Jongman 2003; Roth 2007 (plus her short articles2004, 2005a and b); Marzano 2007, esp. ch. 5

Industry: Thompson 2002 chs. 5-6 (Greece as well as Rome)

Child slaves: Laes 2008

Public slaves: Coulton 1988; Weaver 1972; Houston 2002; Lenski 2006

On commercial activity and peculium: Kirschenbaum 1987; Aubert 1994; Gamauf 2009;

for Roman law, see Buckland 1908, Watson 1987 (and 1993); also Roth 2005b

On gladiators, see Wiedemann 1992; Hope 2000

On slave prices (Greece and Rome): Scheidel 2005b

On non-slave labour:

See Garnsey 1980, esp. ch. 3 (Athens), and chs. 6-9 (Rome/Empire)

Brunt 1973 (attitudes) and in JRS 1980; Giardina 1993, ch. on ‘The Peasant’

For Egypt, see Cuvigny 1996; Bagnall/Frier 1994; Rathbone 1991