University of London School of Advanced Study
INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
ANCIENT HISTORY SEMINAR
SPRING TERM 2012
slavery and society in the ancient world
Organisers: Henrik Mouritsen and Dominic Rathbone
henrik.mouritsen@kcl.ac.uk, dominic.rathbone@kcl.ac.uk
THURSDAYS 4.30 PM
IN ROOM G22/26 (BUT 29 MAR IN 349)
26 January
Kostas Vlassopoulos
Slave dialectiques: an agenda for studying slave agency in ancient Greece
2 February
Kyle Harper (Oklahoma)
From Roman to medieval slavery, without Karl and Max
9 February
Linda Newson (KCL)
Bartering for slaves on the Upper Guinea coast in the early seventeenth century
16 February
Edith Hall (RHUL)
The baggage train of the Ten Thousand in Xenophon’s Anabasis
23 February reading week
1 March
Alice Rio (KCL)
Slavery and unfreedom in the early Middle Ages
8 March
Jane Rowlandson (KCL)
Slavery in the villages of early Roman Egypt
15 March
Peter Garnsey (Cambridge)
Slaves and ex-slaves at Herculaneum: the evidence of the Album
and Luuk de Ligt (Leiden)
22 March
Claire Holleran (Liverpool)
Slavery and the workforce of the city of Rome
29 March
Yossef Rapoport (QMUL)
The scholar, his wife, her slave-girl: romantic triangles and polygamy in fifteenth-century Cairo
