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Francine Barthe-Deloizy et al., « Le corps de l’esclave en Grèce ancienne : espace de la représentation ou représentation d’un espace ?. », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.324txg
The objective for this paper is to show and tell the slave’s body from a transdisciplinary perspective which will combine in a unique way Ancient History and Geography. If slavery has created a great interest amongst Ancient historians, it would seem that the slave’s body has remained invisible in the field. How could this be explained ? We will grasp this subject from the assumption that it has been an unthought cultural thought : a non mentioned or non explicit reality. We thus went looking for this denied body in the fields of representations. Where and how is the slave’s body shown ? What signs or indicators show the bodies of slavery ? How do we recognize the slave in figurative and discourse representations ? We will highlight a gradient in how the slave’s body is visible/ invisible based on a chosen corpus of texts and iconography.