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The Slave Wars and Slavery in Roman Society
The Slave Wars and Slavery in Roman Society
The Slave Wars and Slavery in Roman Society
The primary sources for this topic have all been collected into one thematically organised
narrative:
Shaw, B.D. (2001) Spartacus and the Slave Wars: a brief history with documents
Read pp. 1-14 of the introduction; skim documents 1-26; read carefully documents 27-82.
Slaves and Slavery
Finley, M. I. (1980: London) / (1998: Princeton) Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology.
Hopkins, K (1978) Conquerors and Slaves
Wiedermann, T. (1978) Slavery. New Surverys in the Classics, no. 19; esp. Ch 6 Discontent and
Rebellion, 47-51.
Slave Wars
Bradley, K. R. (1989) Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World 140 B.C. 70 B.C.
Toynbee, A. J (1965) The Insurrections of Slaves in the Post-Hannibalic Age Chap. 9 in
Hannibals Legacy, 2:313-331.
The Sicilian Slave Wars
Green, P (1961) The First Sicilian Slave War, Past and Present 20: 10-29.
Verbrugghe, G. P. (1972) Sicily 210-70 B.C.: Livy, Cicero and Diodorus Transactions and
Proceedings of the American Philological Association 103: 535-59.
The Spartacus War
Doi, M (1984) On the Negotiations between the Roman State and the Spartacus Army Klio 66:
170-174.
Walbank, F.W. (1981) Prelude to Spartacus: The Romans in Southern Thrace, 150-70 B.C. in
Spartacus. Symposium Rebus Spartci Gestis Dedicatum 2050 A. Blagoevgrad, 20-24.IX.1977, pp. 14-27.
Question: What factors created the social and economic conditions favouring
large-scale armed resistance to servitude? To what extent do you think the
slaveholders were aware of these factors?