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Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (Classical Presences) by Edith Hall; Richard Alston; Justine McConnell; University of London Royal Holloway Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome; British Library is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (Classical Presences) about?
A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway University of London, ask how both critics and defenders of slavery in media ranging from parliamentary speeches to poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema have summoned the ghosts of the ancient Spartans, Homer, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Pliny, Spartacus, and Prometheus to support their arguments.
Who reads Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (Classical Presences)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Edith Hall; Richard Alston; Justine McConnell; University of London Royal Holloway Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome; British Library
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191728723
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Social Science