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Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood
Contributor(s): Hall, Edith (Editor), Alston, Richard (Editor), McConnell, Justine (Editor)
ISBN: 0199574677     ISBN-13: 9780199574674
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $156.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient - General
Dewey: 306.362
Series: Classical Presences
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (1.80 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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Publisher Description:
A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the
Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway University of London, ask how both critics and defenders of slavery in media ranging from parliamentary speeches to poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema have summoned the ghosts of the ancient Spartans, Homer, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Pliny,
Spartacus, and Prometheus to support their arguments.