Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012) for his contribution to the field of Classics. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), Greeks and Barbarians (2013) and co-author of My Whole Life: Stories from the Everyday Life of Ancient Slaves (2020). He is co-editor of Slavery, Citizenship and the State (2009), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015), Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (2016).

• Contents AcknowledgementsAbbreviations 1. Introduction2. Historiographies The formation of the dominant paradigm in the study of ancient slavery The global study of slavery Recent developments in the study of ancient slavery 3. What is slavery? An instructive case: early medieval slavery and ‘serfdom’ The conceptual systems of slavery 4. Slaving contexts and strategies Slaving strategies Slaving contexts Slave-making 5. Enslaved persons Identification modes and forms of relationships Categorisation, self-understanding and groupness 6. Dialectical relationships The master-slave relationship The free-slave relationshipThe relationships within slave communities 7. The slave view of slavery: slave hopes and the reality of slavery Modalities of slavery Exploring slave hopes under slavery The slave hope for freedom 8. Slaving in space and time Epichoric systems of slaving Societies with slaves and slave societies Accounting for change The agency of enslaved persons and historical change 9. Conclusions Bibliography

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