by Tracey Rihll Abstract: On the relationship between slavery and technological innovation in the Greco-Roman world. Slaves in the manufacturing and service sectors performed high-skill or care-intensive work, and were…
by Kimberly Bowes Abstract: Prof. Kimberly D. Bowes discusses how models about the collapse of the Roman Empire have often been predicated on the idea of poverty: that the end of Roman domination meant the decline of a…
by Lynette G. MItchell Abstract: This title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at…
by Dan-el Padilla Peralta Abstract: This article proposes a new interpretation of slave religious experience in mid-republican Rome. Select passages from Plautine comedy and Cato the Elder’s De agri cultura are paired…
by Orlando Patterson Abstract: This chapter offers a comparative perspective on the problems of the nature of helotry and, more specifically, its relation to the condition of slavery; of its origin; and the problem of…