Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians

1. Background: warfare, slavery, and ideology 2. Herodotus: the Persian Wars 3. Herodotus: freedom or slavery 4. Thucydides: Helots and Messenians 5. Thucydides: manning the navies 6. Thucydides: encouraging slave desertion 7. Thucydides: the ideology of citizen unity 8. Xenophon: ideal rulers, ideal slaves 9. Xenophon: warfare and revolution 10. Xenophon: the decline of hoplite ideology 11. Conclusion: Volones, Mamluks, and Confederates.