Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek HistoriansCambridge 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. |
Table des matières
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 |
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