
Spartacus and the Slave Wars
A Brief History with Documents
Brent Shaw(Author)
Bedford Books (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 8. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-319-09482-9 (ISBN)
Description
Presenting information in an accessible way for todays students, Spartacus and the Slave Wars examines recent historical work, past presentations of Spartacus in TV and film, and ancient testimony to develop a comprehensive picture of the Roman institution of slavery.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Edition type
Annotated edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-319-09482-9 (9781319094829)
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Brent D. Shaw is professor of Classical Studies and chair of the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been published in many major historical, sociological, and anthropological journals, including Past & Present, American Historical Review, History Today, Journal of Roman Studies, Man, and American Journal of Sociology and is editor of the collected papers of Sir Moses Finley. He is the recipient of the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been Commonwealth Scholar at Cambridge University, honorary visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and Goldman Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. His study of violence in Roman society, especially in civil conflict in the later Roman Empire, helped inspire this volume.