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The Economic Underpinnings Of Ancient Greek Elite Culture Are Explored In Detail In This Study Of Systems Of Slavery Across The Greek World, Which Sets Such Practices In Their Broader Eastern Mediterranean Context To Highlight Points Of Resemblance And Contrast And Shed Light On The Complex Circumstances From Which Greek Slavery Emerged. Introduction And Brief History Of The Issue. -- Part I. Prolegomena: Ownership And The Articulation Of Slave Status In Greek And Near Eastern Legal Practice -- The Riddle Of Freedom -- Status Distinctions In Greece And The Ancient Near East -- Slave Societies, Societies With Slaves: Capturing The Relative Importance Of Slavery To Ancient Economies. -- Part Ii. Epichoric Slave Systems Of The Greek World: The Archaic Greek World -- Helotic Slavery In Classical Sparta -- Classical Crete -- Classical Attica. -- Part Iii. Slave Systems Of The Wider Eastern Mediterranean World: Iron Age Ii Israel -- Assyria: The Eighth-seventh Centuries Bc -- Babylonia: The Seventh-fifth Centuries Bc -- The Persian Empire -- Punic Carthage. -- Part Iv. Why Slavery?: Differentials In The Magnitude Of Slaveholding: Towards An Understanding Of Regional Variation. -- Appendix: The Meaning Of Oiketes In Classical Greek. David M. Lewis. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 307-350) And Indexes.