The Slave wars and Slavery in Roman Society

The primary sources for this topic have all been collected into one

thematically organised narrative:

Shaw, B.D. (2001) Spartacus and the Slave Wars: a brief history with

documents

Read pp. 1-14 of the introduction; skim documents 1-26; read carefully

documents 27-82.

Slaves and Slavery

Finley, M. I. (1980: London) / (1998: Princeton) Ancient Slavery and

Modern Ideology.

Hopkins, K (1978) Conquerors and Slaves

Wiedermann, T. (1978) Slavery. New Surverys in the Classics, no. 19;

esp. Ch 6 ‘Discontent and Rebellion”, 47-51.

Slave Wars

Bradley, K. R. (1989) Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World 140 B.C.

– 70 B.C.

Toynbee, A. J (1965) ‘The Insurrections of Slaves in the Post-Hannibalic

Age’ Chap. 9 in Hannibal’s Legacy, 2:313-331.

The Sicilian Slave Wars

Green, P (1961) ‘The First Sicilian Slave War”, Past and Present 20: 10-

29.

Verbrugghe, G. P. (1972) ‘Sicily 210-70 B.C.: Livy, Cicero and Diodorus”

Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association

103: 535-59.

The Spartacus War

Doi, M (1984) ‘On the Negotiations between the Roman State and the

Spartacus Army’ Klio 66: 170-174.

Walbank, F.W. (1981) ‘Prelude to Spartacus: The Romans in Southern

Thrace, 150-70 B.C.’ in Spartacus. Symposium Rebus Spartci Gestis

Dedicatum 2050 A. Blagoevgrad, 20-24.IX.1977, pp. 14-27.

Question: What factors created the social and economic

conditions favouring large-scale armed resistance to

servitude? To what extent do you think the slaveholders were

aware of these factors?