Slave revolts in antiquity
By: Theresa Urbainczyk.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780520257016; 9780520257023
Subjects: Slave insurrections -- Greece; Slave insurrections -- Rome; Slavery -- Greece; Slavery -- Rome
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The significance of slave revolts; title: Preparing for revolt; title: Maintaining resistance; title: The role of the leader; title: Ideology of the slaves; title: Sympathy for the slaves: Diodorus Siculus; title: The secret of the success of the Spartan Helots; title: Slave revolts in the ancient historiography.