A01=Theresa Urbainczyk
ancient Mediterranean history
ancient resistance movements
army
Author_Theresa Urbainczyk
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classical historiography
Common Language
Constantine's Excerpts
Constantine’s Excerpts
Contemporary Society
E Rich
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Excerpta De
gaius
Gaius Gracchus
Gelon
gracchus
historical narrative bias
interpretation of slave resistance
Julius Obsequens
leaders
Lucius Licinius Lucullus
Marcus Licinius Crassus
Maroon Communities
Masurius Sabinus
Messenian Helots
Quilombo
rebellion
roman
Roman Republic
rst
sicilian
Sicilian Slave Wars
Slave Army
Slave Leader
Slave Revolts
Slave War
social unrest antiquity
Spartacan Revolt
Spartan Helots
subaltern agency studies
tiberius
Tiberius Gracchus
Toussaint Louverture
war
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781844651016
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed as wholly exceptional and resulting from peculiar historical circumstances that had little to do with the intrinsic views or organizational capabilities of the slaves themselves.In this book Theresa Urbainczyk challenges the current orthodoxy and argues that there were many more slave revolts than is usually assumed and they were far from insignificant historically. She carefully dissects ancient and modern interpretations to show that there was every reason for the writers who recorded and re-recorded the slave rebellions and wars to repress or to reconfigure any larger-scale slave resistance as something other than what it was. Further, she shows that we often have the accounts that we do because of the happenstance of certain ancient authors having been particularly interested in creating accounts of them for their own interests. Urbainczyk argues that we need to look beyond the canonical sources and episodes to see a bigger history of long-term resistance of slaves to their enslavement.
Theresa Urbainczyk is Senior Lecturer in Classics at University College Dublin.
