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Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures) Book

This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, or a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply...Read More

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    This book uses historical primary sources to attempt to explain how slavery was viewed in ancient Greece and Rome. This is no mean task, because the Greek and Roman public conversations generally steered clear of the subject. The result is a typology of classical attitudes towards slavery, ranging from critique to justification, and a careful look at the views of Aristotle, the Stoics, Philo Judaeus and Paul, and Ambrose and Augustine.

  • 0521574331
  • 9780521574334
  • Peter Garnsey
  • 13 November 1996
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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