Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece The Experience of Subordinates, 700—300 BCE

Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece explores the experiences of subordinates and the nature of their subordination in the Greek world 700—300 BCE. Throughout the course of the ten contributions it aims to bring forth the voices of the various groups and individuals affected by differing structures and degrees of subordination, and explore what can be gained by examining these together. What did these various and numerous groups, especially those who are underrepresented in scholarship, hold in common?

Most people belonged to one of these subordinated groups, but recovering their existence is particularly difficult in archaic and classical Greece. Some groups we cannot hear about because they are not subjects of surviving discourses; some groups were systematically ignored or deliberately excluded from the historical record. The many with only partial or zero legal rights-slaves, metics, exiles-all benefit from renewed revelatory efforts, and by putting their experiences into conversation with other subordinated groups.

This volume contains individual studies of slaves and indentured labourers, exiles, women, and disenfranchised of many kinds. It brings together leading scholars in the field and covers a broad range of philological, historical, and archaeological approaches to the discussion in an effort to better understand both the processes and the conditions of subordination.

Samuel D. Gartland, Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture, University of Leeds,David W. Tandy, Visitng Research Fellow in Classics, University of Leeds

Samuel D. Gartland (PhD Leeds) was lecturer in ancient history at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and departmental lecturer in ancient history at the university of Oxford 2015-2019. From 2019 he has been Lecturer in Greek History and Culture at Leeds.

David W. Tandy (PhD Yale) is Professor of Classics Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Tennessee (US), currently a research fellow in Classics at Leeds.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Subordination in Boiotia, Samuel D. Gartland and David W. Tandy
1. A Moral Economy of the Demos in Early Archaic Greece, Julien Zurbach
2. Solon and the Demos in his Poetry, Anthony T. Edwards
3. Reconstructing the Lives of Urban Craftspeople in Archaic and Classical Greece, Sarah C. Murray
4. "Don't tell anybody you are a thete!" Athenian Thetes: Identity and Visibility, Lucia Cecchet
5. The Athenian working class: scale, nature and development, Hans van Wees
6. The Local Slave Systems of Ancient Greece, David M. Lewis
7. How to Find a New Master: The Agency of Enslaved Persons in Ancient Greece, Sarah Forsdyke
8. Spoken from the Grave: the Construction of Social Identities on the Funerary Monuments of Metics in Classical Athens, Sara Wijma
9. Varying Statuses, Varying Rights: A Case Study of the graphe hubreos, Deborah Kamen
10. Strategies of Disenfranchisement: "Citizen" Women, Minor Heirs and the Precarity of Status in Attic Oratory, Rebecca Futo Kennedy
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