“Research on antiquity so far has focused on what happened in the upper classes, treating slaves only as objects of oppression and exploitation. But the slaves were, at the same time, active historical subjects, who brought changes in all areas. It will also organize international conferences and publish three collective volumes: a summary of the research project, slave biographies and a book on the communities and identities of slaves. The selection of the research project by the ERC was the result of the important research work carried out over several years during which the research group was formed. In the Department of History and Archeology at the University of Crete we don’t even have funds for books for the libraries.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 22, 2023 04:05 UTC