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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
Recovering the voices of subaltern groups is one of the great challenges facing ancient historians. Whether conceived of as a moral imperative or a historiographical one, attempts to re-centre historical victims of oppression, exploitation and abuse in our picture of ancient societies have become a mainstay of ancient historical research. The three books under review differ in their form, methodologies and outlook. Together, they offer a representative sample of the high quality of recent research conducted on the subjects of slavery and subaltern groups in ancient Greece and of the direction of travel in these areas.
1 In the English language alone, there are P. Hunt's Greek and Roman Slavery (2018) and S. Forsdyke's Slavery in Ancient Greece (2021), in addition to K. Vlassopoulos and E. Bathrellou's Greek and Roman Slaveries (2021), the pluralised successor to T. Wiedemann's sourcebook Greek and Roman Slavery (1981).
2 One of very few typographical errors occurs at p. 74, so that Artemidorus is dated to the second century bce.
3 See K. Vlassopoulos, Historicising Ancient Slavery (2021), for a similar call to integrate slavery into the event histories we typically tell.
4 The book was published before exciting new detail came to light following the improved reading of Philodemus’ History of the Academy in a papyrus from Herculaneum. See reports at: https://www.unipi.it/index.php/documenti-ateneo/item/27928.