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Author Zelnick-Abramovitz, Rachel

Title Not wholly free : the concept of manumission and the status of manumitted slaves in the ancient Greek world / by R. Zelnick-Abramovitz
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 385 pages)
Series Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 0169-8958 ; 266
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 266. 0169-8958
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Slavery and Freedom: Definitions and Approaches; Chapter 2: Manumission: Diversity and Similarity; Chapter 3: Manumittors and Manumitted Slaves; Chapter 4: The Act of Manumission; Chapter 5: Laws and Legal Actions; Chapter 6: The Reality of Freedom; Conclusions; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Sources; General Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356) and indexes
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Greece -- History
Slavery -- Greece -- History
Freed persons -- Greece -- History
Freed persons -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Greece -- History
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Civilization
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Freed persons
Freed persons -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Sklave
Freilassung
Slavernij.
Vrijlating.
Griekse oudheid.
SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
Subject Greece
Griechenland Altertum
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005050141
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