Ancient history from below : subaltern experiences and actions in context

If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history-'from below'-is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing...

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1. Verfasser: Courrier, Cyril, 19..-
Weitere Verfasser: Oliveira, Julio Cesar Magalhães de, 1977- (Verlagsleitung)
Format: Livre papier
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York : Aix-Marseille : Paris : Routledge ; Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme ; Institut universitaire de France 2022.
Schriftenreihe:Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Edition sous un autre format:• Ancient history from below, subaltern experiences and actions in context, 978-1-003-00514-8 (ebook)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword: What is This History to Be? / Brent D. Shaw
  • Acknowledgements / Cyril Courrier and Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Ancient history from below: an introduction / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira and Cyril Courrier
  • Part 1: Who is below? Subaltern conditions, languages and communities
  • 2. Subaltern community formation in antiquity: some methodological reflections / Kostas Vlassopoulos
  • 3. Southern Gaul from below: the limits and possibilities of epigraphic documentation / Cyril Courrier and Nicolas Tran
  • Part 2: Experiences of poverty, dependency and work
  • 4. Poverty, debt, and dependent labour in the ancient Greek world: thinking through some issues in doing ancient history from below / Claire Taylor
  • 5. Destitute, homeless and (almost) invisible: urban poverty and the rental market in the Roman world / Cristina Rosillo-López
  • 6. Roman agriculture from above and below: words and things / Kim Bowes
  • Part 3: Gender, ethnicity and subalternity
  • 7. Hellenicity from below: subalternity and ethnicity in classical Greece and beyond / Gabriel Zuchtriegel
  • 8. Subaltern masculinities: Pompeian graffiti and excluded memories in the early Principate / Renata Senna Garraffoni
  • Part 4: Politics from below: subaltern agency and collective action
  • 9. Metics, slaves and citizens in classical Athens: rethinking the polis from below / Fábio Augusto Morales
  • 10. What is below? The case of the Athenian riot of 508/7 BC / Alex Gottesman
  • 11. Slave agency in Livy s history of Rome: between rebellion and counterconspiracy / Fábio Duarte Joly
  • 12. The crowd in late antiquity: problems and possibilities of an inquiry / Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
  • Epilogue : Agency, past, present and future / Pedro Paulo A. Funari
  • Index