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Relationships among slaves in Menander
| Resumo: | The chapter argues for the necessity of examining ancient evidence on Greek and Roman slavery in ways which fully acknowledge that the lives of enslaved people, although powerfully conditioned by their slavery, were not reducible to it. The chapter focuses specifically on the plays of the Athenian comic poet Menander, and examines whether they portray slaves as assuming identities and roles which are not directly connected to their capacity as slaves to their masters. It also investigates the degree to which such portrayals can be used by historians in order to imagine and reconstruct possibilities regarding the experience of slavery of real slaves in Menander's time. |
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| Autores principais: | Bathrellou, Eftychia |
| Ano: | 2014 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | The chapter argues for the necessity of examining ancient evidence on Greek and Roman slavery in ways which fully acknowledge that the lives of enslaved people, although powerfully conditioned by their slavery, were not reducible to it. The chapter focuses specifically on the plays of the Athenian comic poet Menander, and examines whether they portray slaves as assuming identities and roles which are not directly connected to their capacity as slaves to their masters. It also investigates the degree to which such portrayals can be used by historians in order to imagine and reconstruct possibilities regarding the experience of slavery of real slaves in Menander's time. |
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