Slaves and Other Objects

By: Page duBois

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Hardcover | 1 September 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this new book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity: the indispensability of slaves in ancient Greece. DuBois argues that every object and text in the world of ancient Greece bears the marks of slavery and the need to reiterate the distinction between slave and free. And yet the ubiquity of slaves in ancient societies has been overlooked by scholars who idealize antiquity, misconstrued by those who view slavery through the lens of race, and obscured by the split between historical and philological approaches to the classics.

DuBois begins her study by exploring the material culture of slavery, including how most museum exhibits erase the presence of slaves in the classical world. Shifting her focus to literature, she considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes. She contends throughout that portraying the difference between slave and free as natural was pivotal to Greek concepts of selfhood and political freedom, and that scholars who idealize such concepts too often fail to recognize the role that slavery played in their articulation.

Opening new lines of inquiry into ancient culture, Slaves and Other Objects will enlighten classicists and historians alike.

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"[This] timely and passionate book reinstates slaves at the center of the ancient household and psyche.... Page duBois has certainly achieved her stated goal in making it far more difficult for classicists anywhere to avoid looking ancient slaves in the face when examining the artifacts, literature, and thought of the societies which denied them liberty." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement"

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500 Classical History & Civilisation General & World History Specific Events & Topics in History Slavery & Abolition of Slavery Politics & Government Political Science & Theory

Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Classical Literary Studies Fiction Classic Fiction

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Objects
Communicating with the Dead Slaves and Everyday Life
Greeks in the Museum
Dildos
The Slave Body
Texts
Slavery as Metaphor, Slavery and Freedom
The Woman Enslaved
The Slave Plato
Aesop the Fabulist
On Aristotle Or, The Political Theory of Possessive Mastery
Irate Greek Masters and Their Slaves The Politics of Anger Epilogue Material World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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