Symposium Vesuvianum: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience
Villa Vergiliana Via Cuma 320, Bacoli, NA, ItalyOrganizers: John Bodel, Brown University; William Owens, Ohio University; Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College In his 1965 book Sklaverei und Humanität, Joseph Vogt offered a description of Roman slavery in which the enslaved accommodated themselves to the moral universe created by their enslavers. A dozen years later Moses Finley delivered a riposte to Vogt in a […]