Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians

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Cambridge University Press, 9 mai 2002 - 264 pages
The warring Greek city-states of the classical period often found it advantageous to use slaves in their armed forces and to encourage rebellion or desertion amongst the slaves of their enemies. But since military service was highly esteemed while the state of slavery was despised, classical Greek historians such as Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon tended not to discuss slave participation in war. This book examines the actual role of slaves in war, the neglect of it by historians, and the reasons for this reticence.

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Background warfare slavery and ideology
1
CLASSICAL WARFARE
7
HELOTS
13
IDEOLOGY
19
Herodotus the Persian Wars
26
THERMOPYLAE AND PLATAEA
31
SALAMIS
40
Herodotus freedom or slavery
42
A THREATENED IDEOLOGY
132
EXTREMISTS
135
THUCYDIDES
138
Xenophon ideal rulers ideal slaves
144
THE MILITARY BASIS OF RULE
146
WAR AS TEST
153
BINARIES
158
XENOPHON SAMBO AND NAT
160

SLAVERY AND WARFARE
46
Thucydides Helots and Messenians
53
HELOT SOLDIERS
56
ATHENIANS AND MESSENIANS
62
THUCYDIDES ATTITUDE
68
THE MESSENIAN QUESTION
76
Thucydides manning the navies
83
NONATHENIAN NAVIES
84
ARGINUSAE
87
OTHER OBJECTIONS
96
Thucydides encouraging slave desertion
102
THE FATE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES
108
RECRUITMENT AND REBELLION
115
Thucydides the ideology of citizen unity
121
MILITARY PREROGATIVES
122
SLAVE AND CITIZEN
126
Xenophon warfare and revolution
165
THE NEODAMODEIS
170
SLAVE SOLDIERS IN THE WAYS AND MEANS
175
THE FOUNDATION OF MESSENE
177
Xenophon the decline of hoplite ideology
185
HOPLITE PURITY
190
IGNOBLE BATTLES
194
THE STATUS OF SOLDIERS
202
Conclusion Volones Mamluks and Confederates
206
ISLAMIC SLAVE SOLDIERS
209
SLAVES FOR THE CONFEDERACY?
214
CONCLUSION
218
Bibliography
222
Index
242
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