| Not Wholly Free: The Concept of Manumission and the Status of Manumitted Slaves in the Ancient Greek World Contributor(s): Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004145850 ISBN-13: 9789004145856 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $207.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: Based on a thorough investigation of the literary and epigraphic sources, this comprehensive study presents Greek manumission as a form of social relations, rooted in concepts of freedom and dependence and reflected by the terminology and the conditions of manumission. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - History | Civilization |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| LCCN: 2005050141 |
| Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava |
| Physical Information: 1.18" H x 6.42" W x 9.56" (1.85 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Not Wholly Free is a comprehensive study of manumission in the Greek world, based on a thorough appraisal of the extant evidence and on a careful examination of manumission terminology. R. Zelnick-Abramovitz investigates the phenomenon of manumission in all its aspects and features, by analyzing modes of manumission, its terminology, the group composition of manumittors and freed slaves, motivation, procedures and conditions of manumission, legal actions and laws concerning manumitted slaves, and the latter's legal status and position in society. A very important work for all those interested in social history of ancient Greece, slavery, and manumission, as well as ancient historians and classical philologists. |