Keith Bradley is Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and held a Killam Research Fellowship in Canada during 1996–1998. He is also the author of Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History (1991) and Slavery and Society at Rome (1994). Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare College. He has published extensively on Greek history over several decades, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece (Cambridge 1997, new edition 2002), Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2004, revised edition 2005), and most recently Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (Cambridge, 2009).

• Series editors' introduction: 1. Slavery in the Ancient Near East Daniel C. Snell; 2. Slaves in Greek literary culture Peter Hunt; 3. Classical Athens T. E. Rihll; 4. The Helots: a contemporary review Paul Cartledge; 5. Slavery and economy in the Greek world Dimitris J. Kyrtatas; 6. The slave-supply in Classical Greece David Braund; 7. Slavery and the Greek family Mark Golden; 8. Resistance among chattel slaves in the Classical Greek world Niall McKeown; 9. Archaeology and Greek slavery Ian Morris; 10. Slavery in the Hellenistic world Dorothy J. Thompson; 11. Slavery and Roman literary culture Sandra R. Joshel; 12. Slavery in the Roman Republic Keith Bradley; 13. Slavery under the Principate Neville Morley; 14. The Roman slave supply Walter Scheidel; 15. Slave labour and Roman society John Bodel; 16. Slavery and the Roman family Jonathan Edmonson; 17. Resisting slavery at Rome Keith Bradley; 18. Slavery and Roman material culture Michele George; 19. Slavery and Roman law Jane F. Gardner; 20. Slavery and the Jews Catherine Hezser; 21. Slavery and the rise of Christianity Jennifer Glancy; 22. Slavery in the late Roman world Cam Grey.

'No slave voices survive. But what can be excavated from the evidence is considered here in a scholarly, detailed, clearly argued and thoroughly worthwhile collection of essays.' Literary Review