Slave Revolts in Antiquity

Name: Slave Revolts in Antiquity
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ISBN: 9780520257023

ISBN-10: 0520257022

ISBN-13: 9780520257023

Edition: 2008

Authors: Theresa Urbainczyk

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Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery in antiquity, the same cannot be said for slave resistance in this period. Slave revolts have typically been dismissed as historically insignificant or exceptional events resulting from peculiar historical circumstances. In the first in-depth work on this topic to be published in two decades, Theresa Urbainczyk challenges much current thinking by looking beyond the canonical sources to reveal a longer and far more significant history of slave resistance. Her engaging, up-to-date account considers the circumstances of these revolts, looks at slave leaders and how they are recorded in history, explores the aims of slaves, examines…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 191
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.088
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Chronology


The ancient Mediterranean



The significance of slave revolts



Preparing for revolt



Maintaining resistance



The role of the leader



The ideology of the slaves



Sympathy for the slaves: Diodorus Siculus



The secret of the success of the Spartan helots



Slave revolts in the ancient historiography


Notes


Bibliography


Index