Diverse Slaveries: Slaving Strategies and Experiences of Slavery in Classical Athens

by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Jason Douglas Porter

Classical Athenian slavery is often discussed as a single phenomenon and Athens' enslaved as a unitary group. Yet the single legal status that the enslaved shared often obscures the very different characteristics of slavery evident in our evidence. This book provides a nuanced picture of Athenian slavery and its consequences from the perspective of slaveholding strategies, evidencing the varying ways in which Athenian slave owners employed their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 139952674X
• ISBN13: 9781399526746
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages