![]() This course builds on this new scholarly energy to look at the root-and-branch way in which slavery shaped the ancient Greek and Roman world. Slavery has attracted continuous scholarly attention for the past two generations, but discussion has been particularly lively in the past decade with the appearance of several works surveying the whole field (Bradley and Cartledge 2011, Hunt 2018, Vlassopoulos 2020, Hodkinson, Kleijwegt and Vlassopoulos ( online and forthcoming) ), and with a renewed interest in comparative history. ![]() The distinctive choices made in one Greek society or at one time emerge most clearly when compared with each other and with the choices made in one or other part of the Roman world at one or another time, and vice versa. Indeed, slavery offers us one of the best lenses through which to do comparative history both within the Greek and Roman worlds and between them. RM CP3P3Eslavery, ancient world, Roman slave market, wood engraving after painting by Gustave Boulanger, 19th century, historic, historical, trader. 2007 saw the bicentenary of the 1807 abolition of the British slave trade. Slavery profoundly affected social, political, economic and cultural relations, but it did not determine them. analysis of ancient and modern slave-owning societies, yet archaeologists of. Hamilton Fyfe, 1995.But if slavery is something that unites Greece and Rome in opposition to us, slavery in the ancient world was not a single thing. Longinus De Sublimitate 44.5: “And so, my friend adds, if what I hear is true that not only do the cages in which they keep the pygmies or dwarfs, as they are called, stunt the growth of their prisoners, but their bodies even shrink in close confinement, on the same principle all slavery, however equitable it may be, might wee be described as a cage for the human soul, a common prison.” Translation W. 383).Īnother passage describes the practice of confining slaves in cages with the painful result of deformed limbs and shrunken bodies: For Aristotle, a slave was living property (in Greek, ). Interestingly, the final words (σύμμικτον εἶδος κἀποφώλιον τέρας) are a quotation from Euripedes’ Thesus (Fr. Aristotle described slavery in Ancient Greece as natural and necessary. ![]() Plutarch, De Curiositate 10/Moralia 520c: “Therefore just as at Rome there are some who take no account of paintings or statues or even, by Heaven, of the beauty of the boys and women for sale, but haunt the monster-market, examining those who have no calves, or are weasel-armed, or have three eyes, or ostrich-heads, and searching to learn whether there has been born some commingled shape and misformed prodigy, yet if one continually conduct them to such sights, they will soon experience satiety and nausea so let those who are curious about life’s failures, the blots on the scutcheon, the delinquencies and errors in other people’s homes, remind themselves that their former discoveries have brought them no favour or profit.” (Translation W.C. ![]() Maria della Consolazione between the vicus and the Basilica Julia and between the Vicus Iugarius and porticus Margaritaria.Īn intriguing passage from Plutarch tells of a separate area which he calls the τεράτων ἀγορὰν, or the “market of monsters”: Unfortunately, the exact location of the Graecostadium is unknown but. Unfortunately, the exact location of the Graecostadium is unknown but literary sources, in conjunction with a fragment of the Marble Plan, suggest that the location was somewhere south of the Roman forum, between it and the present church of S. The slave market in ancient Rome is also known as the area of the Graecostadium. The slave market in ancient Rome is also known as the area of the Graecostadium.
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