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Pages: 210
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-02-24 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-16 - Publisher: Routledge
Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that ar
Language: en
Pages: 208
Pages: 208
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Enormous numbers of slaves were absorbed into Roman society from the third century B.C. onwards. Mainly enslaved prisoners of war, they transformed the quality
Language: en
Pages: 519
Pages: 519
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