Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Map of Classical Greece 1. Definitions and Problems: Chattel Slaves Serfs, and the Concept of a Slave-Society 2. The Development of Chattel Slavery: From Homer to Solon 3. Community Slaves or Serfs: the Spartan Helots and Others 4. Slaves in Classical Athens: Numbers, and Economic Functions 5. Slaves in Classical Athens: Treatment and Hopes of Freedom 6. Resistance, Flight and Revolt 7. Justifications: Barbarians and Natural Slaves 8. Associated Ideologies: Work, Leisure and Sex Suggestions for Further Study Suggestions for Further Reading

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From Homeric times to the fourth century BC, this book analyses the fundamental place of slavery in the economies and social life of classical Greece.

About the Author

N.R.E. Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at University of Wales, Cardiff. He has published Hybris: A study of the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece and Social Values in Ancient Greece.