{"id":11,"date":"2012-09-05T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:05:29","slug":"ancient-slavery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/courses\/ancient-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ancient Slavery<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Time and Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesdays 8:00 pm, AdobeConnect classroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description and Goals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The first part of this class will be a broad overview of slavery in the Greek and Roman world, focusing on literature and ideology. \u00a0Garnsey will be our primary text for this part. \u00a0Students will choose an ancient &#8216;generic&#8217; free avatar, and respond to the assigned readings as their avatar. \u00a0Examples of possible avatars: wealthy landowning aristocrat, subsistence farmer, merchant, shopkeeper, soldier, wife\/widow\/female relative of relevant male character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The second part of the class will focus more on ancient Rome and on particulars of life for Roman slaves. \u00a0Bradley will be our primary text for the second part. \u00a0Students will choose a specific Roman slave avatar and respond to the assigned readings as their avatar; this can be a historical or literary character, or entirely fictional. \u00a0Examples of possible avatars: Tiro, Trimalchio, gladiator. \u00a0 \u00a0The optional text, Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern, will be discussed towards the end of the class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/content-removed\/\">Syllabus\/Schedule<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>click above link for pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homework<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>see syllabus\/schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Grades<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>see syllabus\/schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grading Scale<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>see syllabus\/schedule<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Attendance and Late Policy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Notify me of scheduling conflicts and for class recordings\/make-up work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/281"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vyates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}