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Peter Hunt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado. My qualifications for this project include my published and forthcoming work in the field of ancient slavery-see CV. In addition, I hope to incorporate two unpublished research projects: my work on Slave Culture at Athens, will be incorporated into the part of Chapter Four on that topic. My project at the NEH Summer Seminar in Rome (directed by Richard Saller and John Bodel) was a statistical and comparative-historical analysis of epitaphic evidence for Roman slave families, whose surprising results I have never had a chance to publish and which I will use in Chapter Five. Although my research has generally been more Greek than Roman, my graduate training and my original dissertation proposal covered both Greek and Roman slavery-which is why Susan Treggiari, the prominent Roman social historian, was my dissertation director and Keith Bradley was on my committee. I have written articles about Roman slavery for the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Slavery and have recently been invited to contribute articles on Slavery: Slavery in Greece, Slavery: Slavery at Rome, and Spartacus for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, a commission that will dovetail well with the preparation of this book. I have taught courses on Comparative Slave Societies: Greece, Rome, and the South as well on Athenian Social History, which covered slavery. These teaching experiences will inform my composition of a book for such or similar courses.
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery is one of the first overviews of the lives of slaves in Greece and Rome aimed at a more general reader [...] an excellent book to use for an undergraduate course on the ancient world, either as a main text or as an adjunct to a more traditional textbook that focuses on the traditional narratives of these societies. - Christian Perring, PhD, Editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews Hunt delivers an introduction to classical slavery that will appeal to a wide range of readers. The book will function equally well as a textbook in courses on ancient slavery, social history, or comparative slavery, and as a reference work for historians working on slavery in other periods. It is difficult to produce a text that serves the needs of these distinct audiences, but Hunt does so successfully by using case studies that guide the reader through the methodology of studying ancient slavery. [...] The greatest compliment that I can pay Hunt is that he has convinced me that a thematic approach [for my course], using his text, will be much more interesting. - Katharine P.D. Huemoeller, University of British Columbia for Bryn Mawr Classical Review
