This book offers an innovative way of both thinking about the history of Roman slavery and a method for finding and interpreting evidence of slave experience in the Roman world through the work of Plautus, one of the great Roman dramatists.Ground-breaking new approach to Roman slavery creating a contextualizedpicture of slavery in the late third and early second centuries BCEUses literary evidence from Roman drama to study the interaction between masters and slaves, as well as issues of power and domination in Roman societyPresents an overview of the historiography of the period, as well as an explication of the comparative methodDiscusses how slaves were captured and sold; their treatment by the master and the community; the growth of the conception of the slave as “other than human,” and as chattel; and the problem of freedom bothfor slaves and societyIncludes the difference between a so-called "slave society" and a society with slavery INDICE: PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Human PropertyChapter Two: Enslavement, or “Seasoning” SlavesChapter Three: Violence, Private and CommunalChapter Four: Release From SlaveryChapter Five: The Problem of ActionConclusionBibliography
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9628-4
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 27/04/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés