Slave revolts in antiquity /
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| Author / Creator: | Urbainczyk, Theresa, 1960- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. |
| Description: | xii, 177 p. : map ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Slave insurrections -- Greece. Slave insurrections -- Rome. Slavery -- Greece. Slavery -- Rome. Slave insurrections. Slavery. Greece. Rome (Empire) |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7182743 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- The ancient Mediterranean
- 1. The significance of slave revolts
- 2. Preparing for revolt
- 3. Maintaining resistance
- 4. The role of the leader
- 5. The ideology of the slaves
- 6. Sympathy for the slaves: Diodorus Siculus
- 7. The secret of the success of the Spartan helots
- 8. Slave revolts in the ancient historiography
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index