Download or read book The Invention of Ancient Slavery written by Niall McKeown and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery was a fundamental institution in the world of the ancient Greeks and Romans. This text attempts to ask the question whether the historian can hope to reconstruct the life of ancient slaves, or just fragments of their image in Greek and Roman literature.