Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell.

"Originating in a conference organised in 2007 by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway, University of London, and held at the British Library ... this accessible volume offers a pathbreaking study of the role played by the interpreters of ancient Greek and roman texts in...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Classical presences.
Corporate Authors: University of London. Royal Holloway. Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome
British Library
Other Authors: Hall, Edith, 1959-
Alston, Richard, 1965-
McConnell, Justine
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Classical presences.
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Physical Description:xviii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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