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In many respects, starting conference sessions at 08:30 is cruel and unusual punishment, especially as my hotel’s coffee is slightly less caffeinated than ditchwater, but I have now worked out the Göteborg trams well enough to get to a decent cafe beforehand… #ESSHC2023
It might be tempting to stay in the cafe, if not for the fact that the first session is on New Approaches to Ancient Slavery, kicking off with David Lewis' study of the importance of Syrians within data for the origins of enslaved people in classical and esp. Hellenistic Greece.
Interesting distinction - okay, ideal types so more of a spectrum - between slaving and non-slaving zones; Athens as paradigm of latter (no enslavement of citizens!), lots of examples of former. Reflects state formation, or power of demos to protect itself against predation?
