The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel: Resistance and Appropriation

by William M Owens

Book Overview

This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre's regular social degradation of these members of the elite.

Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and stereotypes about slaves, Owens argues for an ideological division within the genre: the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032337648
• ISBN13: 9781032337647
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"