Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians by Peter Hunt

Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians by Peter Hunt

This book challenges conventional opinion by arguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Although rival city-states often used these classes in their own forces or tried to incite their enemies' slaves to rebellion or desertion, such recruitment was ideologically awkward: slaves or Helots, despised and oppressed classes, should have had no part in the military service so closely linked with citizenship, with rule, and even with an individual's basic worth. Consequently, their participation has tended to drop out of the historical record. Focusing on Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, this study attempts to demonstrate the actual role played by slaves and Helots in warfare, the systematic neglect of the subject by these historians, and the ideologies motivating this reticence.

' the best book on ancient Greek slavery and arguably one of the most important books in all ancient Greek history'Slavery and Abolition

Professor Emeritus of Children's Literature in Cardiff University, Peter Hunt was the first specialist in the field of children's literature to be awarded full Professor of English at a British university. He has authored or edited eighteen books on the subject, as well as more than 200 essays and 150 book reviews. His books have been/are being translated into Danish, Japanese, Greek, Persian, and Korean, and he has also released four novels for young adults. From Finland to New Zealand and Japan, he has lectured at over 100 universities and colleges in 20 countries, including stints as a Visiting Professor at universities in the United States and as a Visiting Fellow in Australia. In 1995, he received the Outstanding Scholarship Prize from the International Society for the Fantastic in the Arts, and in 2003, he received the Brothers' Grimm Award for services to children's literature from the International Institute for Children's Books in Osaka. He is one of the editors of the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (January 2005) and the second edition of the International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (Routledge, 2 volumes, 2004).

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ISBN 13	9780521584296
ISBN 10	0521584299
Title	Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians
Author	Peter Hunt
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1998-03-05
Number of pages	264
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