Conquerors and Slaves

Klappentext Professor Hopkins has developed an exciting approach to social questions in antiquity and his book should be of interest to all students of ancient history and of historical sociology. Zusammenfassung The enormous size of the Roman empire and the length of time it endured call for an understanding of the institutions which sustained it. In this book! Keith Hopkins! who is both classicist and sociologist! uses various sociological concepts and methods to gain insights into how traditional Roman institutions changed as the Romans acquired their empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of plates; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; Abbreviations; Maps; 1. Conquerors and slaves: the impact of conquering an empire on the political economy of Italy; 2. The growth and practice of slavery in Roman times; 3. Between slavery and freedom: on freeing slaves at Delphi; 4. The political power of eunuchs; 5. Divine emperors or the symbolic unity of the Roman empire; Bibliography; Supplementary bibliography; Index of subjects; Index of proper names.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Keith Hopkins, Hopkins Keith
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.1981
• EAN: 9780521281812
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28181-2
• Seiten: 292
• Serien: Urbanization in Developing Cou; Urbanization in Developing Cou
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / World, General & world history, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE