Spartcus and the Slave Wars

A Brief History with Documents
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-312-18310-3
Verlag: Macmillan Learning

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: The Bedford Series in History and Culture

In 73 BC, in the heart of Rome's Mediterranean empire, a slave named Spartacus ignited one of the most violent episodes of slave resistance in the history of the Roman Empire - indeed in the world annals of slavery. This volume organizes original translations of 80 Greek and Latin sources into topical chapters that look at the daily lives of slaves trained as gladiators and those who laboured on farms in Italy and Sicily, including accounts of revolts that preceded and anticipated that of Spartacus. In a carefully crafted introductory essay, Shaw places Spartacus in a broader context of first and second century BC Roman Italy and Sicily and explains why his story continues to be a popular symbol of rebellion today. The volume also includes a glossary, chronology, selected bibliography, 3 maps, an annotated list of ancient writers, and questions for consideration.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaw, Brent D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ForewordPrefaceLists of Maps and IllustrationsPART ONE: INTRODUCTION: Spartacus and the Slave WarsThe Slave Wars in Italy and SicilySpartacus: the Man, the Myth, and the Modern Symbol of RebellionReading Greek and Roman History SourcesA Note about the TextPART TWO: DOCUMENTSSlave Life on the Large Farms: Work, Organization and SurveillanceGladiators, Slaves and ResistanceFugitive Slaves and Maroon CommunitiesSlave Revolts in Italy and Sicily before the Great Slave WarsThe First Sicilian Slave War, 135-131 BCThe Second Sicilian Slave War, 104-100 BCThe Spartacus Slave War, 73-71 BCAPPENDICESA List of the Principal Authors and their SourcesGlossary of Greek and Latin TermsChronology of Events of the Slave Wars (198-60 BC)Questions for ConsiderationSelected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

BRENT D. SHAW is Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published in many major historical, sociological and anthropological journals, including Past and Present, American Historical Review, History Today, Journal of Roman Studies, Man and American Journal of Sociology and is editor of the collected papers of Sir Moses Finley. He is the recipient of the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been Commonwealth Scholar at Cambridge University, an honorary visiting fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and Goldman Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His study of violence in Roman society, especially in civil conflict in the later Roman Empire, helped inspire this volume.