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  title info:
    title: Diverse Slaveries
    sub title: Slaving Strategies and Experiences of Slavery in Classical Athens
  name:
    name part: Douglas Porter, Jason
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Roth, Ulrike
    role:
      role term: contributor.
    role:
      role term: ctb
    role:
      role term: https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    place:
      place term: GB-SCT
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (248 pages) : 2 b/w tables.
  abstract: Classical Athenian slavery is often discussed as a single phenomenon and Athens' enslaved as a unitary group. Yet the single legal status that the enslaved shared often obscures the very different characteristics of slavery evident in our evidence. This book provides a nuanced picture of Athenian slavery and its consequences from the perspective of slaveholding strategies, evidencing the varying ways in which Athenian slave owners employed their enslaved and the different methods of social control they utilised to do so. This approach, drawn from the work of historian Joseph Miller, eschews static definitions of 'the institution of slavery', in favour of a more dynamic progression of varied, though interrelated, phenomena. Applying this methodology to classical Athenian evidence sheds light on the complexity of the city state's slave system and explicates the wide variations in the lives of Athenian slaves. Jason Douglas Porter furthers academic understanding of the complex relationships between slavery, Athenian society and economy through recognising the diverse motivations and contexts that drove these varied forms of exploitation.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Divergent Slaving Strategies -- 1 The Motivations Behind Different Slaving Strategies -- 2 The Development of Diverse Slaving Strategies in Relation to the Work of Enslaved Persons -- 3 The Diversity of Slaving Strategies within Industries -- Part II: The Slaving Strategies of Athenian Households: Two Case Studies -- 4 Xenophon's Ideal Household: Direct Management and Increasing Wealth Through Slavery in the Oikonomikos -- 5 The Real Household of Demosthenes: Rentier Strategies and the Building of a Political Career -- Part III: Diverse Experiences of Slavery -- 6 Slaving Strategies and the Lives of Athens' Enslaved -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Athenian Wealth Distribution and the Feasibility of Widespread Slave Ownership -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: Jason Douglas Porter.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Classics & Ancient History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery : ESAS
  identifier: 9781399526760
  identifier: 1399526766
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 250320
    record change date: 20250728172847.8
    record identifier: in00005652380
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng