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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries
  • Language: en

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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After the Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

After the Past

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them? These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans could never have thought of them. They never questioned the right of the rich to be rich. They could not improve their understanding of Homeric gift-giving with the experience of ritualized friendship among the Trobriand islanders. Such questions and such answers can only come from those who live after the ancient past. This volume honours the well-known Dutch epigraphist and ancient historian H.W. Pleket. Ten substantial essays reflect his wide range, from early Greece to the Roman Empire, and his taste for comparative economic and social history.

The Faces of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

The Faces of Freedom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-05-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume is concerned with the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern States of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century.

Ancient Youth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Ancient Youth

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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Ancient Youth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Ancient Youth

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The Faces of Freedom
  • Language: en

The Faces of Freedom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-05-01
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  • Publisher: Brill

This volume is concerned with examining the histories of freed slaves in a variety of slave societies in the ancient and modern world, ranging from ancient Rome to the southern states of the US, the Caribbean, and Brazil to Africa in the aftermath of emancipation in the twentieth century. The aim of this work is to present a comparative forum for the study of freedpeople. By identifying what is separate and what is universal about freedpeople it hopes to add to a better understanding of the role and impact of manumission and emancipation in different slave societies. Contributors include: Valentina Arena, Steeve Buckridge, Mariana Dantas, Marc Kleijwegt, Martin Klein, Rita Reynolds, Chandima Wickramasinghe, Swithin Wilmot, and Nigel Worden.

Women, Society, and Constraints
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Women, Society, and Constraints

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This title explores the impact of patriarchy on women in past and present societies, and it specifically addresses the tenacity of partriarchal systems of thinking and behaviour.

Toto notus in orbe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Toto notus in orbe

Inhalt: K. M. Coleman: The liber spectaculorum T. J. Leary: Martial's Early Saturnalian Verse Bruce W. Swann: Sic scribit Catullus R. A. Pitcher: Martial's Debt to Ovid Christer Henriks�n: Martial und Statius Johannes Scherf: Zur Komposition von Martials Gedichtbuechern 1-12 Elena Merli: Epigrammzyklen und 'serielle Lektuere' in den Buechern Martials John Garthwaite: Putting a price on praise Peter Howell: Martial's Return to Spain Eugene O'Connor: Martial the Moral Jester Willibald Heilmann: Epigramme Martials ueber Leben und Tod Uwe Walter: Soziale Normen in den Epigrammen Martials A. L. Spisak: Gift-Giving in Martial Marc Kleijwegt: Extra fortunam est quidquid donatur amicis M. A. P. Gr...

An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great Down to the Reign of Constantine (323 B.C.-A.D. 337)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great Down to the Reign of Constantine (323 B.C.-A.D. 337)

" In short, this is a reference work of the best kind. For the beginner, it is indispensable. And for those who already know something about its subject matter, the book is in many ways useful, informative, and interesting. We all owe a debt to the author] for undertaking this significant project, and for completing it so well." - Michael Peachin, Classical World " . . . provides invaluable road maps for non-epigraphers faced with passages of inscribed Greek." - Graham Shipley, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Greek inscriptions form a valuable resource for the study of all aspects of the Greco-Roman world. They are primary witnesses to society's laws and institutions, religious habits, and langua...

Freed Persons in the Roman World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Freed Persons in the Roman World

Provides case studies that approach historical evidence in new ways to reconstruct how freed people were integrated in Roman society.