Volume 28, Number 16 · October 22, 1981
The Bitter History of Slave History
By Ernst Badian
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
by M.I. Finley
Viking, 208 pp., $13.95
Greek and Roman Slavery
by Thomas Wiedemann
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 284 pp., $8.95 (paper)
There has, in the last few decades, been as much, and almost as bitter, controversy over ancient slavery as over slavery nearer in time and place and more obviously 'relevant.' M.I. Finley's long interest in ancient slavery has made him the foremost expert on this subject—as on Greek and Roman social and economic history in general—in the English-speaking world. He has also been a major contributor to the polemics: he does not suffer fools gladly, and he loves to tell them so; nor is he one to keep ideology out of scholarship.
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