Lo viejo y lo nuevo en la representación de la dependencia en autores de la Antigüedad tardíaSímaco y Agustín de Hipona

  1. Manuel Rodríguez Gervás 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Book:
Lo viejo y lo nuevo en las sociedades antiguas: homenaje a Alberto Prieto
  1. Jordi Cortadella (coord.)
  2. Oriol Olesti Vila (coord.)
  3. César Sierra Martín (coord.)
  4. Alberto Prieto (hom.)

Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté ; Université de Franche-Comté

ISBN: 978-2-84867-629-6

Year of publication: 2018

Pages: 507-521

Congress: Groupe international de recherches sur l'esclavage dans l'antiquité (GIREA). Congreso Internacional (36. 2013. Barcelona)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

Based on an analysis of the collected letters of the noble Roam Symmachus and the African Bishop Augustine of Hippo, this contribution discusses similarities and differences within relations of dependence. In both authors , lines of continuity can be noted, as well as occasional breaks in theses lines, with regard to the different forms of dependence: slavery or the colonate system. Thyis approach leads me to reflect on the role of Christianity in the coninuity or transformation of the modes of representation of inferior social groups; in short, ir serves to increase our knowledge of Christian discourse about social relations, a discourse, with its own nuances, that continues to affect the conceptualization of classical culture.