Ideological Polemics in the Historiography of Ancient Slavery
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In ancient historiography, Slavery and Servile system is an intensively polemical field due to modern ethical aspects that value liberty and rights of man that seek to denounce the cruelty of ancient slavery. On the contrary, the antiquarian historians contradicted such aspects by suggesting that slavery was a crucial contributing factor towards the rise of the Classical Civilization, the Greco-Roman Civilization that would become the identity and the basis for the Western Civilization. Thereby, variety of approaches, methodologies, narratives-and, more importantly, ideologies amassed the historiography of ancient slavery, elucidating various ethical debates based on different norms and moral predilections since then. This article shall examine the development of these polemical ideologies, from the very beginning of the historiography on this subject.
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