Ancient Mediterranean
Slavery Slavery in Antiquity
  CLAS115 • Slavery in Antiquity

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UNIT 1 • CURSE OF HAM

secondary sources
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    1. Slavery & Slave Theory in Antiquity
ancient texts
  • Gen 9-11
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Moses / J E P D sources / redaction under Josiah / editing post-exile
    when: ca.1200 / 1000 / 610 / 530 BCE
    where: Jerusalem
    summary: internal attribution to Moses, but various traditional sources were interwoven by a scribe under Josiah and edited after the Babylonian exile

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Genesis, or Torah (“law”) or Pentateuch (first “five books”)
    where: the cosmos
    when: in the beginning; antediluvian
    summary: explanations about various customs and social affinities; etiology (origin story) of drunkeness and slavery; putative eponymous ancestors
    walkthrough 01-1
    • 9: 18-29 • Curse of Ham
      etiology of viticulture and drunkeness
    • 10.1-32 • Generations of Noah (“Table of Nations”); toledoth (P)
      division of peoples by kinship
    • [11.1-9 • Tower of Babel (J)]
      [division of peoples by language]
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Table of Nations

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UNIT 2 • NEIGHBORS & KIN

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
    1. D. Snell "Slavery in the Near East"
  • L. Culbertson. 2011. Slaves and Households in the Near East. Oriental Institute. (7-14)
ancient texts
  • Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Moses / J E P D sources / redaction under Josiah / editing post-exile
    when: ca.1200 / 1000 / 610 / 530 BCE
    where: Jerusalem
    summary: internal attribution to Moses, but various traditional sources were interwoven by a scribe under Josiah and edited after the Babylonian exile

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Genesis, or Torah (“law”) or Pentateuch (first “five books”)
    where: Israel & Judah
    when: 610-530 BCE
    summary: legal codes
    walkthrough 02-1
    • Gen 19: 30-38 • Lot & His Daughters
      second ctrl+alt+del, limited to Sodom & Gomorrah
      drunkenness & nakedness (similar to Noah)
      Lot (Abraham's nephew) sleeps with daughters > Moabites, Ammonites
    • Gen 25:19-34; 27:5-40; 36:1-8 • Jacob & Esau
      Isaac & Rebecca have twins
      elder (redhead Esau + red lentils = Edom) to serve younger (Jacob = Israel)
      trick with clothing (27:15); other peoples will serve you (27:29, 37, 40)
    • Gen 37:12-36; 39:1-6 • Joseph
      Ishmaelites (“Arabs,” from Abraham & Hagar) caravan to Egypt
      Midianites (from Abraham & Keturah) pull him out and sell him
      brothers cannot seize him, for he is “their own flesh”
      37:31-34 Jacob = Israel tricked with clothing
      [37:36 Midianites sell him to Potiphar in Egypt]
      39:1 Ishmaelites sell him to Potiphar
        overseer, successful, prosperous, in charge
    • Ex 21:1-11 • legal code
      summary
    • Deut 15:1-18 • legal code
      summary
    • Lev 25:39-55 • legal code
      summary
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UNIT 3 • ANE SLAVERY

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
    1.
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    2. Slavery Accepted
ancient texts
  • Elephantine Papyri
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aramaic scribes
    when: ca.400 BCE
    where: Elephantine (Egypt)
    summary: texts in Aramaic, written in a Persian era border-garrison by Yawhistic believers

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Elephantine Papyri
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    walkthrough 03-1
    • CoS 1.68
      summary
    • CoS 1.74
      summary
  • Code of Hammurabi
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Akkadian scribe
    when: ca.1750 BCE
    where: Babylon
    summary: first extensive legal code

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Code of Hammurabi
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    walkthrough 03-2
    • CoS 2.131
      summary
  • A1 Plat.Leg.777b-778a
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Platon of Athens (Plato)
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Athens
    summary: student of Socrates; founder of the Academy

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Laws (Gk Nomoi, Lat De legibus)
    where:
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Plato Laws)
    • tl;dr
  • A2 Aristot.Pol.1253b1-18
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics)
    • tl;dr
  • A3 Varr.Rust.1.17
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: M. Terrentius Varro
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Rustic Affairs (Lat Res rusticae)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Varro Rustic Matters)
    • tl;dr
  • A4 Gai.Inst.1.8-9; 2.1, 12-14
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Gaius (praenomen only!)
    when: 150 CE
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Institutes (Lat Institutiones)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Gaius Institutes)
    • tl;dr
  • A5 Phil.Spec.Leg.2.123
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (Heb Yedidia ha-Kohen)
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De speialibus legibus
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Philo On the Special Laws)
    • tl;dr
  • A6 Eph 6:5-8 (Letter of Paul to the Ephesians)
  • A7 Aug.En.Ps.124.7 (St. Augustine Exposition on the Psalms)
  • A8 Dew, in Faust 1981: 61-62
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Thomas Roderick Dew
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Abolition of Negro Slavery
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (T. R. Dew Abolition of Negro Slavery)
    • tl;dr
  • A9 Chrys.Ill.Catec.12.25 (John Chrysostom Baptismal Instructions)
  • A10 GNaz.Test. = PG 37.389-96 (Gregory Nazianzus Testament)
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UNIT 4 • NATURAL SLAVERY

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
    1.
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    3. Justifications of Slavery
ancient texts
  • Aristot.Pol.
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics) walkthrough 04-1
    • 1.1-2 (the polis) 1252b27-1253a17
    • 1.3-7 (slaves) 1253b14-b22, 1254a17-1254b26
    • 1.12-13 (women and children)
  • B1 Aristot.Pol.
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics) walkthrough 04-1
    • a. 1254a30-2
        tl;dr ruler over ruled is natural
    • b. 1254a22-3
        tl;dr ruler over ruled is useful
    • c. 1254b25-27
        tl;dr slaves are useful, like domesticated animals
    • d. 1277a35-7
        masters recognize utility, slaves recognize how to do things
    • e. 1330a26-30
        tl;dr slaves cultivate
    • f. 1328a22-5
        tl;dr indispensable for the existence of, but not part of, whole
    • g. 1278a2-4
        tl;dr indispensable for the existence of, but not part of, whole
    • h. 1328b37-1329a3
        tl;dr mechanical and mercantile life leaves no time for leisure
    • i. 1328a36-8
        tl;dr the object of life in the polis is the best life
  • B2 Cic.Rep.
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: M. Tullius Cicero
    when: 1st BCE
    where: Arpinum > Rome
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On the Commonwealth (Lat De re publica)
    where: Roman Empire
    when: 1st BCE
    summary:
    (Cicero Republic) — walkthrough 04-2
    • a. in Aug.Civ.19.21 (Augustine City of God)
        tl;dr rule over others is just, established for their benefit
        as soul rules the body and reason rules lust
    • b. in Aug.c.Iul.4.12.61 (Augustine Against Julian)
        tl;dr soul rules body like king over subjects or father over children;
        reason rules lust like a master over slaves
    • c. in Aug.Civ.14.23
        tl;dr soul rules body like king over subjects or father over children;
        reason rules lust like a master over slaves
    • d. in Isid.Orig.18.1 (Isidore Origins)
        tl;dr defensive & just war leads to dominion
  • B3 Phil.Leg.al.3.88 (Philo Allegorical Law)
  • B4 Orig.Gn.Hom.16.1 (Origen Homily on Genesis)
  • B5 Bas.Spir.Sanct.12.246-64 (Basil On the Holy Spirit)
  • B6 Ambr.Iac.vit.beat.2.3.11 (Ambrose On Jacob and the Happy Life)
  • B7 Aug.Civ.19.15
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Augustine
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De civirate Dei
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Augustine City of God)
    • tl;dr sin (of Ham) led to slavery; righteous because God is righteous
  • B8 Florentius, in Dig.1.5.4.2 (Justinian Digest)
  • B9 Epict.4.1.33-37
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Epictetus
    when: c.55-135 CE
    where: Hierapolis (Phrygia) > Rome > Nicopolis (Actium)
    summary: slave of Epaphroditus, imperial freedmen of Nero; later freed himself; Stoic philosopher; banished by Domitian, to Nicopolis (Actium)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Discourses (Gk Diatribai), recorded by his student Arrian
    where: Nicopolis (Actium)
    when: ca.108 CE
    summary:
    (Epictetus Discourses)
    • tl;dr slave is better off than freedman
  • B10 Lib.Or.25.66-67 (Libanius Orationes)
  • B11 Theod.Prov.7 (Theodoret On Divine Providence)
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UNIT 5 • SLAVERY & POLITICAL THEORY

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
    1.
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    8. Aristotle
    4. Slave Systems Criticized
ancient texts
  • ARIST Aristotle
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika), Nicomachian Ethics (Gk Ēthika Nikomakheia), Eudemian Ethics (Gk Ēthika Eudēmeia), Parts of Animals (Gk Peri zōōn mopiōn, Lat De partibus animalium)
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (various) walkthrough 05-1
    • 1. Pol.1254a4-18 (Politics)
        tl;dr slaves belong to another by nature, as instrument of action (JG)
    • 2. Pol.1254b28-34
        tl;dr nature gives slaves stooped physique, doesn't always follow this rule (NG)
    • 3. Pol.1254b21-4; 1260a7-14
        a. tl;dr slaves apprehend reason but do not possess it (ED)
        b. tl;dr male, female, child and slave possess varied share of reason (ED)
    • 4. Eth.Nic.1149a25-8 (Nicomachean Ethics)
        tl;dr anger does not heed reason, like a clumsy slave who does not listen (DE)
    • 5. Pol.1254a36-b3
        tl;dr man should be studied in his best natural conditon (TT)
    • 6. Pol.1253a9-18
        tl;dr rational discourse distinguishes man from animal (SV)
    • 7. Pol.1260a33-b5
        tl;dr slave virtue relates to master, only need a bit, taught by master (SC)
    • 8. Pol.1254b25-34
        tl;dr tasks of slaves and animals maintain others, strength of their bodies (KG)
    • 9. Pol.1280a31-5
        tl;dr slaves and animals have no share in good life or reason (DC)
    • 10. Pol.1256b20-5
        tl;dr those hunted or captured in war are governed naturally if they submit (AS)
    • 11. Eth.Nic.1149a9-12
        tl;dr the uncivilized live by passion rather than reason (JH)
    • 12. Pol.1260b15-21
        tl;dr for the polis to maintain goodness, educate women and children (NJ)
    • 13. Pol.1254a22-33
        tl;dr authority and subordination is necessary and useful, ruler over ruled (MC)
    • 14. Pol.1287b37-41
        tl;dr some controlled by a master (despotes) naturally, not under tyranny (MD)
    • 15. Pol.1252a26-34
        tl;dr natural ruler can plan; slave executes plans in common interest (IJ)
    • 16. Pol.1278b32-38
        tl;dr slave and master have common interests (SG)
    • 17. Pol.1255b14-16
        tl;dr slave & master have common interest by nature, not law & violence (AD)
    • 18. Eth.Nic.1160b22-1161b6
        a. tl;dr politics modelled on family relations (MT)
        b. tl;dr father over son as monarchy, persians over barbarians as tyranny (MT)
        c. tl;dr tyranny perverts justice; slave as living tool (MT)
    • 19. Part.an.645b15ff (Parts of Animals)
        tl;dr body exist for actions, guided by soul (GJ)
    • 20. Eth.Eud.1241b18-24 (Eudemian Ethics)
        tl;dr relationship of soul to body, craftsman to tool, master to slave similar;
        slave is tool of master, tool a sort of inanimate slave
    • 21. Eth.Nic1134b10-13
        tl;dr man cannot act unjustly towards self, nor toward his child or slave (OG)
    • 22. Pol.1254a34-b7
        tl;dr soul rules body like master, reason rules appetites like monarch (DB)
    • 23. Pol.1254b16-21
        tl;dr t
    • 24. Pol.1253b38-1254a9
        tl;dr t
    • 25. Pol.1253a19-29
        tl;dr complete whole has priority over parts (TT)
    • 26. Pol.1254a9-11
        tl;dr t
    • 27. Pol.1255b10-12
        tl;dr t
  • C1 Plat.Leg.776c-778a
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Platon of Athens (Plato)
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Athens
    summary: student of Socrates; founder of the Academy

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Laws (Gk Nomoi, Lat De legibus)
    where:
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Plato Laws)
    • tl;dr
  • C2 Diod.34.2.25-26, 33
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Diodorus Siculus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Library (Gk Bibliotheca)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Diodorus of Sicily Library)
    • tl;dr
  • C3 Sen.Ep.47.2-5, 11-13
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: L. Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Moral Letters to Lucillus (Lat Epistulae morales ad Lucillum)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Seneca Letters)
    • tl;dr
  • C4 Aristot.Pol.1255a22-29
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics)
    • tl;dr
  • C5 Cic.Rep.3.38
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: M. Tullius Cicero
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On the Commonwealth (Lat De re publica)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Cicero Republic)
    • tl;dr
  • C6 Ath.265b-266f
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Athenaeus of Naucratis
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Professors' Dinner Party (Gk Deipnosophistai)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Athenaeus Scholars' Banquet)
    • tl;dr
  • C7 Diod.36.3.2-3
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Diodorus Siculus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Library (Gk Bibliotheca)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Diodorus of Sicily Library)
    • tl;dr
  • C8-9 Aug.Epist.10*.2; 24*.1
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aurelius Augustinus of Hippo
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Letters (Lat Epistulae)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (St. Augustine Letters)
    • tl;dr
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UNIT 6 • RESPONSES TO SLAVERY

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
      4. The Helots: A Contemporary Review
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
      5. Fair Words
ancient texts
  • Ath.262c-272e
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Athenaeus of Naucratis
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Scholars' Banquet (Gk Deipnosophistae)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Scholars' Banquet) – walkthrough 06-1
    • 262C-D Antiphanes (F89), Epicrates Hard-to-Sell Slave (F5)
        women and beardless children command "greedy" slaves
    • 262E-263A Diuchidas History of Megara (FGrH 485 F7)
        household slaves serve guests, normally grind grain; slave/master inversion
    • 263B Pherecrates The Savages (F10)
        before slavery, women did housework, grinding grain at dawn
    • 263C Anaxandrides Anchises (F4)
        fortune alters bodies, transition from free to slave
    • 263C-D Posidonius History (FGrH 87 F8)
        the less intelligent (poor) bind themselves to the more intelligent (rich);
        Mariandynians of Heraclea could not be sold abroad
    • 263E Euphorion (F78)
        Mariandynians called “gift-bringers,” quaking before their masters
    • 263F Ephorus History (FGrH 70 F29)
        Cretan clarōtae (“chosen by lot”); inversion of servant/master roles
    • 264A Sosicrates History of Crete (FGrH 461 F4)
        Cretan names for unfree labor
    • 264A Theopompus (F78)
        Thessalians servile “impoverished” (penestēs)
    • 264B Archemachus History of Euboea (FGrH 424 F1)
        Boeotians exiles in servitude to Thessalians; cannot be sold abroad or killed;
        could gain wealth even though penestae (“impoverished”)
    • 264C Euripides Phrixus (F822a)
        servile called impoverished (penestēs) and hired hand (latris);
        attached to household
    • 264D Timaeus History (FGrH 566 F11)
        criticizes Aristotle, whose friend Mnason had 1000 slaves;
        Locrians relied upon slaves, took jobs away from (free citizen) youth
    • 264E-265B Plato Laws (776b-778a)
        Spartan helots; Heraclean Mariandynians; Thessalian penestae;
        slave's soul is unsound and untrustworthy; avoid slaves from same country,
        avoid shared language; beat them as little as possible; speak only commands
    • Hom.Od.17.322-3
        misquote of Homer implying that slavery removes intelligence
    • 265C Theopompus History (FGrH 115 F122)
        Chians purchase foreign chattle, Thessalians & Spartans enslave Greeks
        (penestae and helots) who previously inhabited their territory
    • 265D-266E Nymphodorus Voyage along the Coast of Asia (FGrH 572 F4)
        Chian runaways formed gangs led by Drimacus; truce made; gained autonomy
        (own weights and measures); offered refuge to abused slaves;
        has lover decapitate him for ransom; worshipped as hero
    • 267A Hyperides Against Mantitheus for Assault (F120)
        some laws punish abuse of slaves as if they were free men
    • 267B-D
        names for unfree labor
    • 267C Ion of Chios Laertes (TrGF 19 F14), 267D
        Achaeus Omphalē (TrGF 20 F32)
        differences between slave (doulos) and house-slave (oiketes)
    • 267E Cratinus Gods of Wealth (F176)
        golden age of Cronus had abundance, no need for slaves
    • 267F Crates Wild Beasts (F16)
        robot furniture does the work of slaves
    • 272B-E
      large numbers of slaves, by individual and by state
  • D1 Florentinus, in Dig. 1.5.4, pref. (Justinian Digest)
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Florentinus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: DigFull
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D2 Ulpian, in Dig. 50.17.32 (Justinian Digest)
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Ulpian
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: DigFull
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D3 Sophocles, fr. 854 = fr. 940, ed. Radt
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Sophocles
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D4 Euripides, fr. 831, ed. Nauck
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Euripides
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: DigFull
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D5 Euripides Helen 728-33
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Euripides
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Helen
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D6 Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis II.117
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who:
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Comparatio Menandri et Philistionis
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D7 Bion, in Stobaeus Florilegium 3.2.28
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Stobaeus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Florilegium
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D8 Zeno, in Diogenes Laertius 7.32-3 (cf. S1)
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Diogenes Laertius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D9 Seneca De beneficiis 3.20.1
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: L. Annaeus Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De beneficiis
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D10 Dio Chrysostom Orationes 15.29
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Dio Chrysostom
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Orationes
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D11 Seneca Epistulae 47.1.10
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Epistulae
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D12 Epict.1:12
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Epictetus
    when: c.55-135 CE
    where: Hierapolis (Phrygia) > Rome > Nicopolis (Actium)
    summary: slave of Epaphroditus, imperial freedmen of Nero; later freed himself; Stoic philosopher; banished by Domitian, to Nicopolis (Actium)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Discourses (Gk Diatribai), recorded by his student Arrian
    where: Nicopolis (Actium)
    when: ca.108 CE
    summary:
    (Epictetus Discourses)
    • tl;dr
  • D13 Gal 3:28
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Galatians
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De beneficiis
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Paul's Letter to the Galatians)
    • tl;dr
  • D14 Aug.En.Ps.124.7
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Augustine
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Enarrationes in Psalmos or Expostions on the Psalms (CCL 40.1840-2)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (St. Augustine Exposition on the Psalms)
    • tl;dr
  • D15 Aug.M54.4.91-103
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Augustine
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: New Sermon (Mainz 54 = Dolbeau 1991)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (St. Augustine New Sermon)
    • tl;dr
  • D16 John Chrysostom Homilies on St John 27
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: John Chrysostom
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Homilies on St John (PG 59.157-8)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D17 Salvian De gubernatione Dei 3.28
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Salvianus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De gubernatione Dei (SC 220.206-8)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D18 Xen.Mem.2.1.16-17
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Xenophon
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Memorabilia
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Xenophon Memorabilia)
    • tl;dr
  • D19 Plin.Ep.3.14
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Epistulae or Letters
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Pliny Letters)
    • tl;dr
  • D20 John Chrysostom Homilies on Titus 4
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: John Chrysostom
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Homilies on St. John (PG 62.685-6)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • D21 Salvian De gubernatione Dei 4.10-18
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Salvian
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De gubernatione Dei (SC 220.238-46)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
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UNIT 7 • SLAVERY CRITICIZED

secondary sources
  • A. Richilin. 2005. Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays. University of California Press
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
      2. Slaves in Greek Literary Culture
     11. Slaves and Roman Literary Culture
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
      6. Slavery Criticized
ancient texts
  • Plaut.Poen.
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: T. Maccius Plautus
    when: ca.254-184 BCE
    where: Sarsina > Rome
    summary: Greek comedies into Latin; written in the period after the Second Punic (Hanniballic) War

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Poenulus (“Little Phoenician,” Towelheads)
    where: Calydon (Sarajevo)
    when: ca.185 CE
    summary:
    (Plautus Towelheads) walkthrough 07-1
    • 1.
  • E1 Alcidamas, in schol.Aristot.Rhet.1373b18
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Alcidamas
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Elaea
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: unknown, in Commentary on Aristole's Ars rhetorica (Lat Scholia in Aristot.Rhet.)
    where:
    when:
    summary: justification for liberty of Messenian helots after 370 BCE
    • tl;dr
  • E2 Aristot.Pol.1253b20-3; 1255p3-12
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira (Aristotle)
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chersonese) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics)
    • tl;dr
  • E3 Philo Quod omnis probus liber sit
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Philo Judaeus of Alexandria
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Quad omnis probus liber sit (EGM 79)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • E4 Philo De vita contemplativa 70
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Philo
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De vita contemplativa
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • E5 Lactant.Div.instit.5.14.15-15.3
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
    when: c.250–325 CE
    where: Cirta (Numidia) > Byzantium
    summary: professor of rhetoric; convert to Christianity; advisor to the emperor Constantine, and tutor to his son Crispus

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Institutiones divinae
    where: Late Roman Empire
    when: 3rd CE
    summary:
    (Lactantius Divine Institutes)
    • tl;dr
  • E6 Gregory of Nyssa Homilies IV (on Eccl 12:7)
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Gregory of Nyssa
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Homilies IV, on Ecclesiastes 12.7 (Hall 1991)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • E4 Theodoret Divine Providence 7
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Theodoret
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: "That the Division into Slaves and Masters is an Advantage in Life" Divine Providence (PG 83.665-85, at 668B, 669B-C)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
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UNIT 8 • SLAVERY EASED

secondary sources
  • A. Richilin. 2005. Rome and the Mysterious Orient: Three Plays. University of California Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    7. Slavery Eased
ancient texts
  • Plaut.Per.329‐399, 462‐469
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: T. Maccius Plautus
    when: ca.254-184 BCE
    where: Sarsina > Rome
    summary: Greek comedies into Latin; written in the period after the Second Punic (Hanniballic) War

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Persa (Iran Man)
    where: Athens (Los Angeles)
    when: ca.185 CE
    summary:
    (Plautus Iran Man) walkthrough 08-1
    • 1.
  • Colum. praef., bk.1
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: L. Junius Moderatus Columella
    when: ca.4-70 CE
    where: Gades > Rome
    summary: born in Phoenician Spain

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On Rustic Matters (Lat De re rustica)
    where: Roman Empire
    when:
    summary: agricultural treatise
    (Columella On Rustic Matters) walkthrough 08-1
    • 1.
  • F1 Dew, in Faust 1981: 59
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Thomas Roderick Dew
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Abolition of Negro Slavery
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (T. R. Dew Abolition of Negro Slavery)
    • tl;dr
  • F2 Plato Laws 776d-778a
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Platon of Athens (Plato)
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Athens
    summary: student of Socrates; founder of the Academy

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Laws (Gk Nomoi, Lat De legibus)
    where:
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Plato Laws)
    • tl;dr
  • F3 Aristot.Pol.1260b5-8
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics)
    • tl;dr
  • F4 Aristot.Pol.1330a32-4
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aristotles of Stagira
    when: 4th BCE
    where: Stagira (Chalcidice) > Athens
    summary: tutor to Alexander the Great; founder of the Lyceum in Athens; writing in the waning days of the city-state (polis)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politics (Gk Politika
    where: Panhellenic
    when: 4th BCE
    summary:
    (Aristotle Politics)
    • tl;dr
  • F5 Cic.De Off.2.24
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: M. Tullius Cicero
    when: 1st BCE
    where: Arpinum > Rome
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On Duties (Lat De officiis)
    where: Roman Empire
    when: 1st BCE
    summary:
    (Cicero On Duties)
    • tl;dr
  • F6 Philo EGM 35
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Philo
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: EGM
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • F7 Seneca De beneficiis 3.19.2; 21.2
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De beneficiis
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • F8 Modestinus, in Dig. 48.8.11.1-2; 40.8.2
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Modestinus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: DigFull
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • F9 Gai.Inst.1.53
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Gaius (praenomen only!)
    when: 150 CE
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Institutes (Lat Institutiones)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Gaius Institutes)
    • tl;dr
  • F10 Ulpian, in Coll.3.3.1-6
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Cn. Domitius Annius Ulpianus
    when: c.170–223 CE
    where: Tyre >
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On the Office of the Proconsul (Lat De officio proconsulis) in the Collection of Mosaic and Roman Law (Lat Collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum
    where: Rome
    when:
    summary:
    (Collection of Mosaic and Roman Law)
    • tl;dr
  • F11 Ulpian, in Dig. 47.10.15.44
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Ulpian
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Justinian Digest)
    • tl;dr
  • F12 Lactant.Ira 5.12
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Lactantius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On Anger (Lat De ira)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Lactantius On Anger)
    • tl;dr
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UNIT 9 • THE STOICS

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    9. The Stoics
ancient texts
  • Aesop
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Maximus Planudes when: 1300 CE
    where: Byzantium
    summary: Eastern Roman (Byzantine Greek) scholar, compiler of earlier Hellenistic traditions (3rd BCE)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Life of Aesop (Lat vita Aesopi)
    where: Asia Minor
    when: Roman imperial era
    summary: biography of the fabulist
    (Life of Aesop) walkthrough 09-1
    • 1.
  • S1 Diog.Laert.7.32-3
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Diogenes Laertius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Lives of the Philosophers (Gk Bioi philosophōn, Lat Vitae philosophorum) (LS 6711)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers)
    • tl;dr
  • S2 Diog.Laert. 7.121-2
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Diogenes Laertius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Lives of the Philosophers (Gk Bioi philosophōn, Lat Vitae philosophorum) (LS 6711)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers)
    • tl;dr
  • S3 Ath.267B
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Athenaeus of Naucratis
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Professors' Dinner Party (Gk Deipnosophistai = LS 67Q
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Athenaeus Scholars' Banquet)
    • tl;dr
  • S4 Seneca, De beneficiis 3.22.1
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De beneficiis
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S5 Clement Stromateis 4.26
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Clement
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: (SVF 3.327 = PG 8.1381)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S6 Philo EGM 97
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Philo
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: EGM
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S7 Stobaeus Eclogae 2.99
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Stobaeus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Eclogae (SVF 3.567)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S8 Epict.4.1.76-9
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Epictetus
    when: c.55-135 CE
    where: Hierapolis (Phrygia) > Rome > Nicopolis (Actium)
    summary: slave of Epaphroditus, imperial freedmen of Nero; later freed himself; Stoic philosopher; banished by Domitian, to Nicopolis (Actium)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Discourses (Gk Diatribai), recorded by his student Arrian
    where: Nicopolis (Actium)
    when: ca.108 CE
    summary:
    (Epictetus Discourses)
    • tl;dr
  • S9 Cleanthes, in Stobaeus Florilegium 2.65.8
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Cleanthes of Assus
    when: ca.330-220
    where: Assus > Athens
    summary: leader of the Stoic school in the 3rd BCE

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: (LS 61L)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S10 Diog.Laert.7.91
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Diogenes Laertius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Lives of the Philosophers (Gk Bioi philosophōn, Lat Vitae philosophorum) (LS 61K)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers)
    • tl;dr
  • S11 Epict.2.11.2-3
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Epictetus
    when: c.55-135 CE
    where: Hierapolis (Phrygia) > Rome > Nicopolis (Actium)
    summary: slave of Epaphroditus, imperial freedmen of Nero; later freed himself; Stoic philosopher; banished by Domitian, to Nicopolis (Actium)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Discourses (Gk Diatribai), recorded by his student Arrian
    where: Nicopolis (Actium)
    when: ca.108 CE
    summary:
    (Epictetus Discourses)
    • tl;dr
  • S12 Cic.Fat.7-8
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: M. Tullius Cicero
    when: 1st BCE
    where: Arpinum > Rome
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: On Fate (Lat De fato)
    where: Rome
    when: 1st BCE
    summary:
    (Cicero On Fate)
    • tl;dr
  • S13 Gell.N.A.7.2.6ff.
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Aulus Gellius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Attic Nights (Lat Noctes Atticae) = LS 620
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (Gellius Attic Nights)
    • tl;dr
  • S14 Epict.1.9.1-6
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Epictetus
    when: c.55-135 CE
    where: Hierapolis (Phrygia) > Rome > Nicopolis (Actium)
    summary: slave of Epaphroditus, imperial freedmen of Nero; later freed himself; Stoic philosopher; banished by Domitian, to Nicopolis (Actium)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Discourses (Gk Diatribai), recorded by his student Arrian
    where: Nicopolis (Actium)
    when: ca.108 CE
    summary:
    (Epictetus Discourses)
    • tl;dr
  • S15 Epict.1.13
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Epictetus
    when: c.55-135 CE
    where: Phrygia
    summary: slave of Epaphroditus, imperial freedmen of Nero; later freed himself; Stoic philosopher; banished by Domitian, to Nicopolis (Actium)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Discourses (written by his student Arrian)
    where: Nicopolis (Actium)
    when: ca.108 CE
    summary:
    (Epictetus Discourses)
    • tl;dr
  • S16 Seneca De beneficiis 3.23
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De beneficiis
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S17 Seneca Epistulae 47.10
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Epistulae
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S18 Cicero De finibus 3.62-3
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Cicero
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: De finibus
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S19 Hierocles, in Hierocles 3.62-3
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Hierocles
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Hierocles
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S20 Seneca Epistulae 1.11
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Seneca
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Epistulae
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S21 M. Aurelius Meditations 5.30
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Marcus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Meditations
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S22 Posidonius, in Ath.263c-d
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Posidonius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Deipnosophistai
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S23 Posidonius, in Seneca Epistulae 90.4-5
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Posidonius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Epistulae
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S24 Hippolytus Refutation of all Heresies 1.21
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Hippolytus
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Refutation of all Heresies (LS 62A)
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
  • S25 Cleanthes, in Epict.53
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Cleanthes of Assus
    when: ca.330-220
    where: Assus > Athens
    summary: leader of the Stoic school in the 3rd BCE

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: unknown, cited in Epictitus Handbook (Gk Encheirídion) = LS 62B
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • tl;dr
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UNIT 10 • PHILO

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    10. Philo
ancient texts
  • Ter.Eun.1‐1094
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: P. Terentius Afer (Terence) when: 190-160 BCE
    where: Numidia > Rome
    summary: playwright of African/Numidian descent

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Eunuchus
    where: Athens
    when: ca.170 BCE
    summary:
    (Terence Eunuch) walkthrough 10-1
    • 1.
  • PHI Philo
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Philo
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Politika
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (various) walkthrough 10-1
    • 1. EGM 17-19
      tl;dr
    • 2. EGM 42
      tl;dr
    • 3. EGM 43-4
      tl;dr
    • 4. De Cherubim 106
      tl;dr
    • 5. De Josepha 241
      tl;dr
    • 6. De specialibus legibus 2.69
      tl;dr
    • 7. De Josepha 246-8
      tl;dr
    • 8. EGM 37
      tl;dr
    • 9. EGM 57
      tl;dr
    • 10. Legum allegoria 3.88-104
      tl;dr
    • 11. De virtutibus 209
      tl;dr
    • 12. De congressu quaerendae eruditionis gratia 175-6
      tl;dr
    • 13. Legum allegoria 192-4
      tl;dr
    • 14. Quod Deus immutabilis sit 64
      tl;dr
    • 15. De sobrietate 69
      tl;dr
    • 16. De specialibus legibus 3.137
      tl;dr
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UNIT 11 • PAUL

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    11. Paul
ancient texts
  • Apul.Met.2; 9.10‐20, 28‐33
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: L. Apuleius or Medaurus when: 125-170 CE
    where: Medaurus (Numidia) > Carthage > Rome > Oea (mod.Tripoli)
    summary: well-eductated provincial Roman; married to older widow; charged with practicing magic

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Metamorphoses (or Golden Ass)
    where: Thessaly > Rome (Temple of Isis)
    when: ca.150 CE
    summary: Lucius, Photis
    (Apuleius Metamorphoses) walkthrough 11-1
    • 1.
  • Apul.Apol.1, 17, 47, 93
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: L. Apuleius or Medaurus when: 125-170 CE
    where: Medaurus (Numidia) > Carthage > Rome > Oea (mod.Tripoli)
    summary: well-eductated provincial Roman; married to older widow; charged with practicing magic

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Defense (Apology)
    where: Sabrata (near Oea, mod Tripoli
    when: ca.158 CE
    summary: Apuleius, Pudentiulla
    (Apuleius Defense) walkthrough 11-1
    • 1.
  • P Paul
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Saul of Tarsus > St. Paul
    when:
    where: Tarsus > Jerusalem > Rome
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (various) walkthrough 11-1
    • 1. Rom 9:1-24
      tl;dr
    • 2. I Cor 7:20-4
      tl;dr
    • 3. Phm 10-19
      tl;dr
    • 4. Col 3:22-4: 1
      tl;dr
    • 5. Eph 6:5-8
      tl;dr
    • 6. Tit 2:9-13
      tl;dr
    • 7. I Tim 6:1-.2
      tl;dr
    • 8. I Pet 2:18-21
      tl;dr
    • 9. Gal 3:28
      tl;dr
    • 10. I Cor 12:13
      tl;dr
    • 11. Col 3:11
      tl;dr
    • 12. Gal 3:29-4:7
      tl;dr
    • 13. Rom 8:14-17
      tl;dr
    • 14. Rom 6:15-23
      tl;dr
    • 15. Phil 2:5-12
      tl;dr
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UNIT 12 • AMBROSE

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    12. Ambrose
ancient texts
  • Petron.Sat.6.26‐78
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: C. Petronius Arbiter
    when: ca.27-66 CE
    where: Rome
    summary: tastemaker for the Emperor Nero

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Satyricon (“satyr‐thing“)
    where: villa along the Gulf of Baiae
    when: ca.400 CE
    summary: Trimalchio, Fortunata
    (Petronius Satyricon) walkthrough 12-1
    • 1.
  • AMB Ambrose
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Ambrose
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (various) walkthrough 12-1
    • 1. Epistulae 7.4
      tl;dr
    • 2. Epistulae 7.5
      tl;dr
    • 3. Epistulae 7.24
      tl;dr
    • 4. Epistulae 7.9-13
      tl;dr
    • 5. Epistulae 7.6-8
      tl;dr
    • 6. De Jacob et vita beata 3.11
      tl;dr
    • 7. De Jacob et vita beata 22.6
      tl;dr
    • 8. De Jacob et vita beata 22.8-9
      tl;dr
    • 9. Epistulae 7.21
      tl;dr
    • 10. Epistulae 7.22
      tl;dr
    • 11. De Jacob et vita beata 2.3.12A-B
      tl;dr
    • 12. Commentaria in Epistulam ad Philippenses 2.255A
      tl;dr
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UNIT 13 • AUGUSTINE

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    13. Augustine
ancient texts
  • Jer.Malch.
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus (St. Jerome)
    when: 347-420 CE
    where: Illyria > Rome
    summary: church father, translator of the Greek Bible into Latin (the Vulgate)

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: Life of Malchus the Captive Monk (Lat vita Malchi monachi captivi)
    where: Syrian desert
    when: ca.400 CE
    summary:
    (St. Jerome Life of Malchus) walkthrough 13-1
    • 1.
  • AUG Augustine
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Augustine
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (various) walkthrough 13-1
    • 1. En.Ps. 124.6-7
      tl;dr
    • 2. En.Ps. 103.3, 9
      tl;dr
    • 3. In Johannis Evangelium tractatus 6.25
      tl;dr
    • 4. Civ.19.14, 16
      tl;dr
    • 5. En..Ps.124.7-8
      tl;dr
    • 6. Epist.199.12.46
      tl;dr
    • 7. In Johannis Evangelium tractatus 41.4
      tl;dr
    • 8. Epist.94.34, 38
      tl;dr
    • 9. Civ.16.35
      tl;dr
    • 10. Civ19.15
      tl;dr
    • 11. New Sermon 2.271-88
      tl;dr
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UNIT 14 • SLAVERY AS METAPHOR

secondary sources
  • K. Bradley & P. Cartledge. 2011. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, I: The Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press
  • P. Garnsey. 1996. Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine.
    13. Slavery as Metaphor
ancient texts
  • LACT Lactantius
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Lactantius
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title:
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    (various) walkthrough 14-1
    • 1a. Inst.div.4.3.14-15
      tl;dr
    • 1b. Inst.div.4.3.16-17
      tl;dr
    • 2. Inst.div.4.4.2
      tl;dr
    • 3. Inst.div.4.4.5
      tl;dr
    • 4. De ira 17.11
      tl;dr
  • AUG Augustine New Sermon
    AUTHOR'S CONTEXT
    who: Augustine
    when:
    where:
    summary:

    NARRATIVE CONTEXT
    title: New Sermon
    where:
    when:
    summary:
    • 12. Mainz 62: 12.264-81
      tl;dr
    • 13. Mainz 5: 7.138-53
      tl;dr
    • 14. Mainz 5: 10.223-7, 237-43, 263-76
      tl;dr
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