Bundel over de gelijktijdige combinatie patriarchaat en slavernij in de Grieks-Romeinse wereld, waarbij er relaties gelegd worden tussen het onderscheid man/vrouw en vrij/slaaf. Bevat: Female slaves in the Odyssey: 'I, whom she detested so bitterly': slavery and the violent division of women in Aeschylus' Oresteia: Slaves with slaves: women and class in Euripidian tragedy: Women and slaves as Hippocratic patients: Symbols of gender and status hierarchies in the Roman household: Villains, wives, and slaves in the comedies of Plautus: Women, slaves and the hierarchies of domestic violence: the family of St Augustine: Mastering corruption: constructions of identity in Roman oratory: Loyal slaves and loyal wives: the crisis of the outsider-within and Roman exemplum literature: Servitium amoris: Amor servitii: Remaining invisible: the archaeology of the excluded in classical Athens: Cracking the code of silence: Athenian legal oratory and the histories of slaves and women: Notes on a membrum disiectum