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Most slaves in the Greek world were imported non-Greeks and their offspring. Yet little is known of the entry into slavery of individuals from the non-Greek periphery. Far more promising for studying entry into slavery is a less numerically significant process, piracy, where the capture and sale of individuals – mainly Greeks - is extensively documented. Piracy was both a form of labour in itself, and a means of acquiring labour. The aim of this article is to explore the pragmatic aspects of capture and sale, as well as the extent to which the practice of ransoming prisoners kept captives away from entering the slave supply, by studying the pirate crew’s work, the technology at its disposal, and the fate of its victims.

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world, demonstrating the central importance of markets for production and exchange of goods and services during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Contributors draw on evidence from literary texts and inscriptions, household archaeology, amphora studies and numismatics. Together, the essays provide an original and compelling approach to the issue of explaining economic growth in the ancient Greek world.

A maioria dos escravos no mundo grego eram não-gregos importados e seus descendentes. Ainda assim, sabemos pouco sobre a inserção de indivíduos da periferia não-grega na escravidão. Muito mais promissor para o estudo dessa inserção na escravidão é um processo numericamente menos significativo: a pirataria, onde a captura e venda de indivíduos – principalmente gregos – é extensivamente documentada. A pirataria era tanto uma forma de trabalho em si mesma quanto um meio de se conseguir trabalho. O objetivo desse artigo é explorar, por meio do estudo do trabalho da tripulação pirata, da tecnologia à sua disposição e do destino de suas vítimas, os aspectos pragmáticos de captura e venda, bem como o nível em que a prática de resgatar prisioneiros impedia cativos de comporem o suprimento de escravos.

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