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873843
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Lewis, David M., (David Malcolm)
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Greek slave systems in their Eastern Mediterranean context, c.800-146 BC /\ David M. Lewis.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Oxford University Press,, 2018.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0191082619
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: 0191822728
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: 9780191082610
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: 9780191822728
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0198769946
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9780198769941
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction and brief history of the issue -- Part I : Prolegomena -- 1. Ownership and the articulation of slave status in Greek and near eastern legal practice -- 2. The riddle of freedom -- 3. Status distinctions in Greece and the ancient Near East -- 4. Slave societies, societies with slaves -- Part II : Epichoric slave systems of the Greek world -- 5. The archaic Greek world -- 6. Helotic slavery in classical Sparta -- 7. Classical Crete -- 8. Classical Attica -- Part III : Slave systems fo the wider eastern Mediterranean world -- 9. Iron age II Israel -- 10. Assyria -- 11. Babylonia -- 12. The Persian Empire -- 13. Punic Carthage -- Part IV : Why slavery? -- 14. Differentials in the magnitude of slaveholding.
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| Abstract
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The economic underpinnings of ancient Greek elite culture are explored in detail in this study of systems of slavery across the Greek world, which sets such practices in their broader Eastern Mediterranean context to highlight points of resemblance and contrast and shed light on the complex circumstances from which Greek slavery emerged.
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Slave trade-- Mediterranean Region-- History.
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Slavery-- Greece-- History.
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Slavery-- Middle East-- History.
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HISTORY-- Ancient-- General.
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Slave trade.
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Slavery.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Slavery.
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Greece, History, To 146 B.C.
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Middle East, History, To 622.
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Greece.
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Mediterranean Region.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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326
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| LC Classification
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HT863.L49 2018
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HT979
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