Taxing Freedom in Thesaslian Manumission Inscriptions

In Taxing Freedom Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz examines the nature, the purpose, and the historical and economic context of payments made to the polis by manumitted slaves, as recorded in manumission inscriptions from Hellenistic and Roman Thessaly.

About the author

Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, Ph.D. (1996), Tel-Aviv University, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics, Tel-Aviv University. She has published extensively on manumitted slaves and other non-citizens groups, including Not Wholly Free (Brill, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2013
• EAN: 9789004253896
• ISBN: 978-90-0-425389-6
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 244 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemo; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book