Helots and Their Masters in Messenia and Laconia

Histories, Ideologies, Structures
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-674-01223-3
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

The name “Helots” evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial role, Helots remain essentially invisible in our ancient sources and peripheral and enigmatic in modern scholarship. This book is devoted to a much-needed reassessment of Helotry and of its place in the history and sociology of unfree labor. The essays deal with the origins and historical development of Helotry, with its sociological, economic, and demographic aspects, with its ideological construction and negotiation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Luraghi, Nino

Alcock, Susan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cartledge, Paul

Figueira, Thomas J.

Hall, Jonathan M.

Hodkinson, Stephen

Kennell, Nigel M.

Patterson, Orlando

Raaflaub, Kurt

Scheidel, Walter

van Wees, J. G. B. (Hans)

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Scheidel, Walter
Walter Scheidel is Associate Professor of Classics at Stanford University.

Hodkinson, Stephen
Stephen Hodkinson is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham.

Luraghi, Nino
Nino Luraghi is Professor of the Classics at Harvard University.

Figueira, Thomas J.
Thomas J. Figueria is a Professor at Rutgers University.

van Wees, J. G. B. (Hans)
Hans van Wees is Professor at the University College London.

Cartledge, Paul
Paul Cartledge is Professor of Greek History at Clare College, Cambridge.

Alcock, Susan
Susan Alcock is John H. D'Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan.

Raaflaub, Kurt
Kurt A. Raaflaub is Professor of Classics and History at Brown University and Joint Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.

Kennell, Nigel M.
N. M. Kennell is a Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece.

Patterson, Orlando
Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; the author of <i>Freedom in the Making of Western Culture</i>, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and <i>Slavery and Social Death</i> (Harvard); and the editor of <i>The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth</i> (Harvard), for which he was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. His work has been honored by the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association, among others, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Special Advisor for Social Policy and Development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and was awarded the Order of Distinction by the Government of Jamaica.

Hall, Jonathan M.
Jonathan M. Hall is Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Chicago.