Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques. Divers Disorienting

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indications of sometimes brutal human relationships

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The book thus enhances our understanding of the complexity and diversity of intercultural relations in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age

Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques. Divers DisorientingThe civilization of Classical Greece values freedom all the more strongly because it is partly based on slavery and was partly built in opposition to Persia, which was subject to the Great King. This book studies the interaction of freedom and slavery in the narratives of the three historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. This duality runs through their thinking in ways that are systematically analyzed here: asymmetries between the emphasis on