This is the first book to critically explore how slaveholding and the subordination of women shaped ancient societies and how women and slaves intersected with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities.

1. Introduction: Differential Equations Sandra R. Joshel, New England Conservatory of Music, USA and Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennyslvania, USA 2. Female Slaves in the Odyssey William G. Thalmann, University of Southern California, USA 3. 'I, whom she detested so bitterly': Slavery and the Violent Division of Women in Aeschylus' Oresteia Denise McCoskey, Miami University, USA 4. Slaves With Slaves: Women and Class in Euripidean Tragedy Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, New York, USA 5. Women and Slaves as Hippocratic Patients Nancy Demand 6. Symbols of Gender and Status Hierarchies in the Roman Household Richard Saller, University of Chicago, USA 7. Villains, Wives, and Slaves in the Comedies of Plautus Annalisa Rei 8. Women, Slaves and the Hierarcies of Domestic Violence: The Family of St. Augustine Patricia Clark, University of Victoria, Canada 9. Mastering Corruption: Constructions of Identity in Roman Oratory Joy Connolly, University of Washington, USA 10. Loyal Slaves and Loyal Wives: The Crisis of the Outsider-Within and Roman Exemplum Literature Holt Parker, University of Cincinnati, USA 11. Servitium amoris: amor servitii Kathleeen McCarthy, University of California, USA 12. Remaining Invisible: The Archaeology of the Excluded in Classical Athens Ian Morris, Stanford University, USA 13. Cracking the Code of Silence: Athenian Legal Oratory and the Histories of Slaves and Women Steven Johnstone 14. Notes on a Membrum Disiectum Shane Butler

'The editor's introduction is exceptionally good in drawing out the methodological threads which unite these exciting essays and makes a very provocative first reading for any undergraduate or non-specialist approaching the subject for the first time.' - JACT Review; 'Valuable for offering current thinking and investigations into areas that remain even today under-studied and under-represented in scholarship on classical society.' - Bryn Mawr, Classical Review; Author's previous publications include:Sandra R. Joshel: Work, Identity and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of Occupational Inscriptions (Oklahoma University Press, 1992)

Sandra R. Joshel teaches ancient history, myth and culture and women's studies in the Liberal Arts Department of the New England Conservatory of Music. She is the author of Work, Identity and Legal Status at Rome: A Study of the Occupational Inscriptions (1992). Sheila Murnaghan is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (1987).