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This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in ancient Greece. The work focusses on improving techniques for witnessing the lives of such groups, understanding their common experiences, and through these, seeing their common humanity.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Subordination in Boiotia
- 1: Julien Zurbach: A Moral Economy of the Demos in Early Archaic Greece
- 2: Anthony T. Edwards: Solon and the Demos in his Poetry
- 3: Sarah C. Murray: Reconstructing the Lives of Urban Craftspeople in Archaic and Classical Greece
- 4: Lucia Cecchet: "Don't tell anybody you are a thete!" Athenian Thetes: Identity and Visibility
- 5: Hans van Wees: The Athenian working class: scale, nature and development
- 6: David M. Lewis: The Local Slave Systems of Ancient Greece
- 7: Sarah Forsdyke: How to Find a New Master: The Agency of Enslaved Persons in Ancient Greece
- 8: Sara Wijma: Spoken from the Grave: the Construction of Social Identities on the Funerary Monuments of Metics in Classical Athens
- 9: Deborah Kamen: Varying Statuses, Varying Rights: A Case Study of the graph¿ hubre¿s
- 10: Rebecca Futo Kennedy: Strategies of Disenfranchisement: "Citizen" Women, Minor Heirs and the Precarity of Status in Attic Oratory
- Index
About the author
Samuel D. Gartland (Ph.D. Leeds) is lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture at Leeds. He was formerly lecturer in ancient history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and departmental lecturer in ancient history at the University of Oxford.
David W. Tandy (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of Classics Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Tennessee (US), and is currently Visiting Research Fellow in Classics at Leeds.
Summary
This volume brings together an international group of scholars to explore the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in ancient Greece. The work focusses on improving techniques for witnessing the lives of such groups, understanding their common experiences, and through these, seeing their common humanity.
