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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784033703321

Autore

Zelnick-Abramovitz Rachel

Titolo

Not wholly free [[electronic resource] ] : the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world / / by R. Zelnick-Abramovitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86861-9

9786610868612

1-4294-2730-2

90-474-0817-9

1-4337-0415-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, , 0169-8958 ; ; 266

Disciplina

306.3/62/09495

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Greece - History

Slavery - Greece - History

Freed persons - Greece - History

Freed persons - Legal status, laws, etc - Greece - History

Civilization, Greco-Roman

Greece Civilization To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-356) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- INTRODUCTION / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: DEFINITIONS AND APPROACHES / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- MANUMISSION: DIVERSITY AND SIMILARITY / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- MANUMITTORS AND MANUMITTED SLAVES / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- THE ACT OF MANUMISSION / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- LAWS AND LEGAL ACTIONS / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- THE REALITY OF FREEDOM / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- CONCLUSIONS / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- BIBLIOGRAPHY / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- GENERAL INDEX / R. Zelnick-Abramovitz -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , I.J.F. de Jong and P.H.



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Sommario/riassunto

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.