Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece : The Experience of Subordinates, 700—300 BCE

by: Gartland, S.D. Tandy, D.W.

Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece

The Experience of Subordinates, 700—300 BCE

Edited by Samuel D. Gartland and David W. Tandy

Engages with a combination of history, archaeology, and philology to offer a wide range of perspectives on subordination
Focuses on archaic and classical Greece to allow for a fuller understanding of subordination in a single culture that can then be used as a cohesive framework for discussions of subordination in different cultures and times
Contains contributions from a diverse group of researchers from various specialisms, which enter into dialogue with one another in a way that encourages new approaches and syntheses

Description
Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece explores the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in the Greek world 700—300 BCE. Throughout the course of the ten contributions it aims to bring forth the voices of the various groups and individuals affected by differing structures and degrees of subordination, and explore what can be gained by examining these together. What did these various and numerous groups, especially those who are underrepresented in scholarship, hold in common?

Most people belonged to one of these subordinated groups, but recovering their existence is particularly difficult in archaic and classical Greece. Some groups we cannot hear about because they are not subjects of surviving discourses; some groups were systematically ignored or deliberately excluded from the historical record. The many with only partial or zero legal rights-slaves, metics, exiles-all benefit from renewed revelatory efforts, and by putting their experiences into conversation with other subordinated groups.

This volume contains individual studies of slaves and indentured labourers, exiles, women, and disenfranchised of many kinds. It brings together leading scholars in the field and covers a broad range of philological, historical, and archaeological approaches to the discussion in an effort to better understand both the processes and the conditions of subordination.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Subordination in Boiotia, Samuel D. Gartland and David W. Tandy
1:A Moral Economy of the Demos in Early Archaic Greece, Julien Zurbach
2:Solon and the Demos in his Poetry, Anthony T. Edwards
3:Reconstructing the Lives of Urban Craftspeople in Archaic and Classical Greece, Sarah C. Murray
4:"Don't tell anybody you are a thete!" Athenian Thetes: Identity and Visibility, Lucia Cecchet
5:The Athenian working class: scale, nature and development, Hans van Wees
6:The Local Slave Systems of Ancient Greece, David M. Lewis
7:How to Find a New Master: The Agency of Enslaved Persons in Ancient Greece, Sarah Forsdyke
8:Spoken from the Grave: the Construction of Social Identities on the Funerary Monuments of Metics in Classical Athens, Sara Wijma
9:Varying Statuses, Varying Rights: A Case Study of the graphē hubreōs, Deborah Kamen
10:Strategies of Disenfranchisement: "Citizen" Women, Minor Heirs and the Precarity of Status in Attic Oratory, Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Index

Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece : The Experience of Subordinates, 700—300 BCE

by: Gartland, S.D. Tandy, D.W.

• ISBN-13: 9780198889601 / 978-0-19-888960-1
• ISBN-03: 0198889607 / 0-19-888960-7
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2024