Antichità senza schiavi. Un percorso di sole utopie

Abstract

In Hellenic reflection, theory and the consequent political practice, are flanked by ideal projects of cities or places in which the living conditions are better than those that are experienced daily. The same situation would also happen for social groups that in ancient times, more than others, were subject to limitations, such as slaves. Numerous Greek authors have ideally imagined communities without slaves: in the theatrical composition, in the literary imagination, in political reflection. But even in the light of this ideal support, it is not possible to deduce intellectual and political movements that are concretely antislavery, in what was, instead, a slave society in all respects. Presenting itself as the second part of a reflection already advanced in the previous issue, this contribution aims to reaffirm these theses.

Community; Doulopolis; Greek Political Thought; Antislavery; Utopia.