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Slave Revolts in Antiquity.

Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed as wholly exceptional and resulting from peculiar historical circumstances that had little to do with the intrins...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acumen 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chronology
  • Map of the ancient Mediterranean
  • 1. The significance of slave revolts
  • 2. Preparing for revolt
  • 3. Maintaining resistance
  • 4. The role of the leader
  • 5. The ideology of the slaves
  • 6. Sympathy for the slaves: Diodorus Siculus
  • 7. The secret of the success of the Spartan helots
  • 8. Slave revolts in the ancient historiography
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1
  • Notes
  • Chapter 2
  • Notes
  • Chapter 3
  • Notes
  • Chapter 4
  • Notes
  • Chapter 5
  • Notes
  • Chapter 6
  • Notes
  • Chapter 7
  • Notes
  • Chapter 8
  • Bibliography
  • Index.