“Ho paura di essere consegnata in dono!” Aspetti della schiavitù femminile nell’antica Mesopotamia

Freedom in Ancient Near East was a relative, not an absolute state, as the ambiguity of the term for “slave” in all the region’s languages illustrates. Slavery is widely attested in Ancient Mesopotamia even if it had not here the relevance it had in Roman society. A major distinction was made betwee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maria Vittoria Tonietti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2009-12-01
Series:Storia delle Donne
Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/2474