Ancient Greece is generally recognized as one of only a handful of slave societies in world
history with slavery playing an important role in all aspects of Greek culture. Unsurprisingly
then scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past forty or so years making a
holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide
to research on this subject surveying recent scholarly trends and controversies and suggesting
future directions for research. Topics include the representation of slaves in Greek art and
literature slavery and the economy slaves and the law the treatment of slaves slavery and
sexuality the manumission of slaves slave resistance and revolt and ancient justifications
and criticisms of slavery. Readers including those interested in slavery of other time periods
will find this book an essential resource in learning about key issues in Greek slavery studies
or in pursuing their own research.
