Slaves and Other Objects
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. OBJECTS
1. Communicating with the Dead
Slaves and Everyday Life
2. Greeks in the Museum
3. Dildos
4. The Slave Body
II. TEXTS
5. Slavery as Metaphor, Slavery and Freedom
6. The Woman Enslaved
7. The Slave Plato
8. Aesop the Fabulist
9. On Aristotle
Or, The Political Theory of Possessive Mastery
10. Irate Greek Masters and Their Slaves
The Politics of Anger
Epilogue
Material World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“[duBois’] timely and passionate book reinstates slaves at the center of the ancient household and psyche. . . . Page duBois has certainly achieved her stated goal in making it far more difficult for classicists anywhere to avoid looking ancient slaves in the face when examining the artifacts, literature, and thought of the societies which denied them liberty.”
“A stimulating and polemical text directed primarily at a general readership, and specifically at those . . . who may idealize ancient Greek cultural achievements unaware of the ubiquity of their slave systems, or misinterpret Greek slavery under the influence of the racial basis of slavery in the Americas.”
History: Ancient and Classical History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Classical Languages
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