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Explores both the material culture of slavery as well as its representation in literature. This book considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes.

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"[This] timely and passionate book reinstates slaves at the center of the ancient household and psyche.... Page duBois has certainly achieved her stated goal in making it far more difficult for classicists anywhere to avoid looking ancient slaves in the face when examining the artifacts, literature, and thought of the societies which denied them liberty." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement"

Slaves and Other Objects

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 April 2008
      ISBN-13 9780226167893
      978-0226167893
      ISBN-10 0226167895
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores both the material culture of slavery as well as its representation in literature. This book considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes.

      Trade Review
      "[This] timely and passionate book reinstates slaves at the center of the ancient household and psyche.... Page duBois has certainly achieved her stated goal in making it far more difficult for classicists anywhere to avoid looking ancient slaves in the face when examining the artifacts, literature, and thought of the societies which denied them liberty." - Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement"

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