CLST 320
Fall 2015
Final Paper Instructions
Due in hard copy at the start of class, November 27th.
This handout includes
a. instructions for writing the paper
b. list of suggested paper topics
c. suggested bibliography
a. Instructions for writing the paper
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The paper should be 2,500-3000 words and will build upon your paper
outline, taking into account my comments. It should be your own work.
Plagiarism will be result in a failing grade for the paper and possibly for the
course. If you are unsure about what constitutes plagiarism I recommend
talking to me or reading about it here.
Please proofread carefully. (On proofreading I recommend watching this
video: The Impotence of Proofreading. The text of that video can be found
here.)
Please provide a proper bibliography; I do not mind which style you use as
long as it is consistent.
The bibliography should also cite any internet sources you have used, such as
Oxford Reference. (You have access through UBC to this site, which contains
many useful resources and is easy to search through, though sometimes quite
slow.)
Please use a consistent citation style for modern texts; I prefer in text
citations, rather than footnotes, but you may use any style as long as it is
consistent. And is a style.
Doublespace all papers. I know it takes more paper but it makes it far easier
to read both when you proofread and when I read it to provide a mark.
Providing a giant block of single spaced type is a bad, bad idea of much
wrongness.
Insert page numbers at the foot or the page. Or at the top. Just have page
numbers. This helps if your staples drop out and I find your paper in several
bits in my pile.
Please provide your name and topic at the top of the front page. There is no
need for
Some other general advice:
Your paper should analyze rather than summarize or provide large undigested
chunks of the ancient or modern readings you have done.
You should have a thesis statement and a conclusion. “And no one was happy
ever again,” is not a conclusion. Well, it is, but it’s a very bad one. The
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conclusion should conclude (roughly) that you’ve proved your thesis statement.
If it says something else entirely, you should rewrite one of them.
The number of paragraphs you use is up to you, although the rule is to have one
major point per paragraph (and only one), and you should never have a
paragraph that takes up an entire page.
Do not use slang or colloquialisms; write formally as much as you can, but, at the
same time, the best writing is the type of writing that comes naturally to you. Do
not use words you do not fully understand the meaning of even if they come
with the blessing of Microsoft Word’s dictionary. Their synonyms are frequently
not synonyms and, to paraphrase the great Admiral Akbar, are a trap.
Do not plagiarize. Using Wikipedia and other online sources without citation or
acknowledgment is plagiarism, which is a serious academic offence and will be
reported.
If you find writing difficult try saying what you want to say out loud – perhaps
even recording it – and then typing it out. You’ll need to edit, but having
something to edit is better than nothing at all. Get friends to proofread – it’s
incredibly hard to proofread your own work. No doubt the number of typos in
this document testify to that.
If you need extra help, ask for it. I honestly won’t mind. Well, I will if you email
at 2am the day the paper is due, but outside of that, I won’t. The best way to get
help for writing is coming to my office hour – email generally doesn’t work very
well for writing assistance. There is also a writing centre on campus; their
information is here.
b. Paper topics. You may select from one of these topics or pick one of your own.
Discuss the sources of chattel slaves in Classical and Hellenistic Greece (this does
not include Greece under Roman rule).
Discuss shifts in Roman sources of slaves from the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd
century CE. Your answer should address why those shifts occurred.
Discuss the differences between the legal status of freedwomen and freedmen in
Roman law. Your discussion should consider the larger social and cultural reasons
for those differences.
Discuss the use of slaves in the imperial civil service in Rome.
Discuss the use and role of public slaves and temple slaves in Classical and
Hellenistic Greece.
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Discuss the use of slaves as entertainers in either Greece or Rome (if writing about
Rome, you can, however, discuss Greeks under Rome).
Why did chattel slaves rarely openly rebel in Greece and Rome?
Discuss the nature, treatment, and sources of agricultural slaves in Rome.
Discuss the pursuit of fugitive slaves in Greece and Rome.
What forms of resistance, other than open rebellion, did slaves resort to in Greece
and Rome? Why did they use these forms of resistance?
Was there a slave class in ancient Rome? Why or why not? (Remember to define
what you mean by class in your answer.)
Discuss the hierarchy and roles of slaves in the imperial household.
What effect, if any, did the rise of Christianity have on the treatment of slaves and
ancient views of slavery?
Compare Greek justifcations for slavery with Roman ones.
c. Select Bibliography (in addition to the below, this searchable online bibliography
on slavery is also very helpful; but I especially recommend Oxford Bibliographies
Online). Anything in bold is especially recommended. Be wary of using older sources.
If the book you want is out of the library, you have a few options:
a. see if the Okanangan campus has it and order it delivered to Point Grey
b. see if it is online via the library (some are, but they are often not in very good
formats for reading more than a few pages at a time)
c. see if the Vancouver Public Library has a copy (you’d be surprised at what you
can get through them)
Boese, W. E. "A Study of the Slave Trade and the Sources of Slaves in the Roman
Republic and the Early Roman Empire" PhD diss., University of Washington, 1973.
Bradley, K.R. Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire. 1984.
Bradley, K.R. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. 1989.
Bradley, K.R. Slavery and Society at Rome. 1994.
Bradley, Keith. "Animalizing the Slave: The Truth of Fiction," Journal of Roman
Studies 90 (2000) 110-25.
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Bradley, K.R. 'Freedom and slavery' in Barchiesi, A. and Scheidel, W., eds, The
Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies. 2010.
Bradley, K.R. and P. Cartledge, eds. The Cambridge world history of Slavery. 2011.
(The sections of this on Greek slavery are very problematic; the ones on Roman
slavery are better.)
Brunt, P. A. "Aristotle and Slavery," in Peter A. Brunt, ed., Studies in Greek History
and Thought (1993) 343-88.
Carlsen, J. Vilici and Roman Estate Managers until AD 284. 1995.
Cartledge, P. "Like a Worm i' the Bud? A Heterology of Classical Greek Slavery,"
Greece & Rome 40 (1993) 163-80.
Crawford, Michael H. "Republican Denarii in Romania: The Suppression of Piracy
and the Slave Trade," Journal of Roman Studies, 67 (1977) 117-24.
Crowther, N. B. "Slaves and Greek Athletes," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica,
n.s. 40 (1992) 35-42
D'Arms, J. H. "Slaves at Roman Convivia," in William J. Slater, ed., Dining in a
Classical Context, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1991) 171-83.
Daube, D. "Two Early Patterns of Manumission," in David Cohen and Dieter
Simon, eds., Collected Studies in Roman Law, Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, (1991)
165-91.
duBois, P. Slaves and Other Objects. 2003.
Evans-Grubbs, Judith. "'Marriage More Shameful than Adultery': Slave-Mistress
Relationships, 'Mixed Marriages', and Late Roman Law," Phoenix 47 (1993) 125-54.
Finley, M.I. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, 1980.
Finley, M.I. Slavery in Classical Antiquity. 1968.
Finley, M.I. (ed.) Classical Slavery. 1987.
Fitzgerald, W. Slavery and the Roman Literary Imagination. 2000.
Garland, Y. Slavery in Ancient Greece. 1988.
Frayn, J.M. Subsistence Farming in Roman Italy. 1979.
Garnsey, P. (ed.) Non–Slave Labour in the Greco–Roman World. 1982.
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George, M. 'Servus and domus: the slave in the Roman house', in Domestic Space in
the Roman World: Pompeii and Beyond, eds R. Laurence and A. Wallace-Hadrill
(1997) 15-24.
George, M. "Race, Racism, and Status: Images of Black Slaves in the Roman
Empire," Syllecta Classica (2003) 161-85.
George, M. ( Ed) Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture. 2013.
Hardy, Jr., James D and Robert B. Robinson. "The Roman Law and Louisiana
Slavery: An Example of Mortgage," Southern Studies, n.s. 1 (1990) 355-69.
Harrill, J. Albert. "Invective against Paul (2 Cor 10:10), the Physiognomics of the
Ancient Slave Body, and the Greco-Roman Rhetoric of Manhood," in Adela Yarbro
Collins and Margaret M. Mitchell, eds. Antiquity and Humanity: Essays on Ancient
Religion and Philosophy (2001) 189-213
Harris, W.V. "Child-Exposure in the Roman Empire," Journal of Roman Studies 84
(1994) 1-22.
Hartfield, Marianne. "New Thoughts on the Proslavery Natural Law Theory: The
Importance of History and the Study of Ancient Slavery," Southern Studies 22
(1983) 244-59.
Hezser, C. "The Impact of Household Slaves on the Jewish Family in Roman
Palestine," Journal for the Study of Judaism (2003) 375-424.
Hopkins, K. Conquerors and Slaves. 1978.
Hunt, P. Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. 1998.
Joshel, S.R. Work, Identity, and Legal Status at Rome: a Study of the
Occupational Inscriptions. 1992.
Joshel, S.R. and Murnaghan, S. eds. Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture:
Differential Equations. 1998.
Joshel, S.R. and Hackworth, L. The Material Life of Roman Slaves.
López Barja de Quiroga, P. "Freedmen Social Mobility in Roman Italy," Historia
(1995) 326-48.
MacMullen, R. "Late Roman Slavery ," in MacMullen, ed., Changes in the Roman
Empire: Essays in the Ordinary, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1990.
McKeown, N. "Seeing Things: Examining the Body of the Slave in Greek
Medicine," Slavery and Abolition, 23 (2002) 29-40.
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Millar, F. "The Roman Libertus and Civic Freedom," Arethusa 28 (1995) 99-105.
Mouritsen, H. The Freedman in the Roman World. 2011.
Nielsen, H. S. "Delicia in Roman Literature and in the Urban Inscriptions," Analecta
Romana Instituti Danici 19 (1990): 79-88.
Osborne, R. "The Economics and Politics of Slavery at Athens," in A. Powell, ed.,
The Greek World (1995) 27-43.
Patterson, O. Slavery and Social Death. 1982. (If you only read one book about
slavery, this should be it.)
Petersen, L. The Freedman in Roman Art and Art History. 2006.
Pomeroy, S. B. "Slavery in the Greek Domestic Economy in the Light of
Xenophon's 'Oeconomicus'," Index: Quaderni camerti di studi romanistici 17 (1989) 1118.
Raaflaub, K. A. "Freedom for the Messenians? A Note on the Impact of Slavery and
Helotage on the Greek Concept of Freedom," in Luraghi and Alcock, eds., Helots
and their Masters in Laconia and Messenia (2003) 169-89.
Rathbone, D. 'The slave mode of production in Italy’, Journal of Roman Studies 73
(1983) 160-68.
Rihll, Tracey [E.]. "War, Slavery, and Settlement in Early Greece," in John Rich and
Graham Shipley, eds., War and Society in the Greek World (1993) 77-107.
Saller, R.P., and Shaw, B.D. ‘Tombstones and Roman Family Relations in the
Principate: Civilians, Soldiers and Slaves’ in Journal of Roman Studies 74 (1984) 124–
156.
Samson, R. "Slavery: The Roman Legacy," in John Drinkwater and Hugh Elton,
eds. Fifth-century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? (1992) 218-27.
Schafer, J Kelleher. " Roman Roots of the Louisiana Law of Slavery: Emancipation
in American Louisiana, 1803-1857," Louisiana Law Review 56 (1995) 409-22.
Scheidel, W. "The Archaeology of Ancient Slavery (review essay: Schumacher,
Sklaverei in der Antike)," Journal of Roman Archaeology (2003) 577-8.
Thompson, F. H. The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Slavery. 2002.
Treggiari, S. Roman Freedmen during the Late Republic. 1969.
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Treggiari, S. 'Jobs in the household of Livia', Papers of the British School at
Rome 43 (1975) 48-77.
Vogt, J. Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man. 1974.
Watson, A. Roman Slave Law. 1987.
Weaver, P.R.C. Familia Caesaris: A Social Study of the Emperor’s Freedmen and Slaves.
1972.
Westermann, W.L. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity. 1955.
Wiedemann, T. J. Slavery. Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics. 1987
Wood, E. M. Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy.
Corrected pbk. ed. 1989.
Wood, E. M. "Landlords and Peasants, Masters and Slaves: Class Relations in
Greek and Roman Antiquity," Historical Materialism 10 (2002) 17-69.
Yavetz, Z. Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome. 1988.
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