To browse Academia. The slave was not only physically ubiquitous but also a constant imaginative presence in the classical world. This book explores the presence of slaves and slavery in Roman literature and asks particularly what the free imagination made of the experience of living with slaves, beings who both were and were not fellow humans. As a shadow humanity, slaves furnished the free with other selves and imaginative alibis as well as mediators between and substitutes for their peers.
As presences that witnessed their owners' most unguarded moments they possessed the knowledge that was the object of both curiosity and anxiety. William Fitzgerald discusses not only the ideological relations of Roman literature to the institution of slavery, but also the ways in which slavery provided a metaphor for a range of other relationships and experiences, and in particular for literature itself.
The book is arranged thematically and covers a broad chronological and generic field. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Proceeding The 9th International Conference on Education 9 1 , , Armada, M.
Murillo-Barroso and M. Charlton eds. Oxbow Books. Oxford and Philadelphia , International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. The pursuit of contacts with cognate fields such as social history, anthropology, history of thought, linguistics and literary theory is in the best traditions of classical scholarship: the study of Roman literature, no less than Greek, has much to gain from engaging with these other contexts and intellectual traditions.
The series offers a forum in which readers of Latin texts can sharpen their readings by placing them in broader and better-defined contexts, and in which other classicists and humanists can explore the general or particular implications of their work for readers of Latin texts. The books all constitute original and innovative research and are envisaged as suggestive essays whose aim is to stimulate debate.
