This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, nor a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. Dr Garnsey draws on a wide range of sources, pagan, Jewish and Christian, over ten centuries, to challenge the common assumption of passive acquiescence in slavery, and the associated view that, Aristotle apart, there was no systematic thought on slavery. The work contains both a typology of attitudes to slavery ranging from critiques to justifications, and paired case-studies of leading theorists of slavery, Aristotle and the Stoics, Philo and Paul, Ambrose and Augustine. A final chapter considers the use of slavery as a metaphor in the Church Fathers.
| ISBN: | 9780521574037 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 1996 |
| Author: | Peter Garnsey |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 269 pages |
| Series: | The W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures |
| Genres: |
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy |
This study, unique of its kind, asks how slavery was viewed by the leading spokesmen of Greece and Rome. There was no movement for abolition in these societies, nor a vigorous debate, such as occurred in antebellum America, but this does not imply that slavery was accepted without question. Dr Garnsey draws on a wide range of sources, pagan, Jewish and Christian, over ten centuries, to challenge the common assumption of passive acquiescence in slavery, and the associated view that, Aristotle apart, there was no systematic thought on slavery. The work contains both a typology of attitudes to slavery ranging from critiques to justifications, and paired case-studies of leading theorists of slavery, Aristotle and the Stoics, Philo and Paul, Ambrose and Augustine. A final chapter considers the use of slavery as a metaphor in the Church Fathers.
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine features in the following genres: Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine is available in Hardback
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine was written by Peter Garnsey and published by Cambridge University Press
Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine has 269 pages
Yes it is part of The W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures series