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Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves’ economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures. Accessible to both scholars and students, this book provides a detailed overview of the ancient evidence and the modern debates surrounding the vast and largely invisible populations of enslaved peoples in the classical world.

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<p> A concise and elegant summary of what is known about classical slavery. The authors provide a rich and well-written argument, moving among various kinds of evidence, literary and material, and treating historiographical difficulties and scholarly controversies without getting lost in them. One of its great virtues is the constant interplay between Greek and Roman practices, providing a model of comparative study. --Page duBois, author of Slavery: Antiquity and Its Legacy and Slaves and Other Objects

<p> [This] excellent monograph . . . covers chattel slavery from Mycenean times to the end of the Roman empire. . .Its focus is on the economic use and the everyday existence of slaves, particularly in classical Athens and republican and imperial Rome. --Niall McKeown, The Classical Review

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Jean Andreau is professor of history at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Raymond Descat is professor of history at the University of Bordeaux.

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