Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (W.B. Stanford Memorial Lectures) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 March 1997
- Format: Paperback 288 pages
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- Categories: Sociology | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Social & Cultural History | Slavery & Abolition Of Slavery | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500
- ISBN 13: 9780521574334 ISBN 10: 0521574331
- Sales rank: 649,392
Full description for Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
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.
