Journeys into Slavery along the Black Sea Coast, c. 550-450 BCE

IF 0.9 2区 历史学 0 CLASSICS CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI:10.1525/ca.2020.39.1.57
C. S. Parmenter
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This article argues that descriptions of the Black Sea found in the Archaic poets, Herodotus, and later geographers were influenced by commercial itineraries circulated amongst Greek slave traders in the north. Drawing on an epigraphic corpus of twenty-three merchant letters from the region dating between c. 550 and 450 BCE, I contrast the travels of enslaved persons recorded in the documents with stylized descriptions found in literary accounts. This article finds that slaves took a variety of routes into—and out of—slavery, and that fear of enslavement was widely felt even among Greeks. Law courts might have been as important as “barbarian” warfare in ensnaring captives for export, and even slave traders themselves risked enslavement alongside their victims. Reconstructing the travels of individual slaves allows us to pursue a study in the spirit of what Joseph C. Miller has called the “biographical turn” in the study of slavery, privileging the experiences of the enslaved over the accounts of their masters. Although the lands around the distant Black Sea were never the leading source of slaves for Aegean cities, the wealth of primary testimony from the region puts it at the forefront in the history of slavery in ancient Greece.
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黑海沿岸的奴隶之旅,公元前550-450年
这篇文章认为,古代诗人希罗多德和后来的地理学家对黑海的描述受到了北方希腊奴隶贩子之间流传的商业路线的影响。根据公元前550年至450年期间该地区23封商业信件的碑文语料库,我将文件中记录的被奴役者的旅行与文学记述中的风格化描述进行了对比。这篇文章发现,奴隶通过各种途径进入和离开奴隶制,甚至在希腊人中也普遍感受到对奴役的恐惧。法庭在俘虏出口方面可能与“野蛮人”战争一样重要,甚至奴隶贩子自己也冒着被奴役的风险与受害者并肩作战。重建奴隶个体的旅行使我们能够本着约瑟夫·C·米勒所说的奴隶制研究的“传记转向”的精神进行研究,将被奴役者的经历置于其主人的叙述之上。尽管遥远的黑海周围的土地从来都不是爱琴海城市奴隶的主要来源,但该地区丰富的原始证据使其在古希腊奴隶制史上处于前列。
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