Professor David Tandy: 'Slavery, honour and ideology in Homer'

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The presentation of slaves and slavery in the Homeric epics is filtered through the lens of elite ideology, presenting positive and negative exempla according to elite ideas of how slaves should behave, and how slaves should be treated in turn by their owners and other members of society. Beyond this, honour might be meted out to or withhold from slaves according to where individual slaves were located in a hierarchy of honour that is closely tied to the productive process. 

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