Publications [#235310] of Joshua D. Sosin

Papers Published

1. Sosin, JD, Manumission with Paramone: Conditional Freedom?, TAPA, vol. 145 no. 2 (2015), pp. 73 pages, ISSN 0360-5949 [repository]
   (last updated on 2024/04/16)

   Abstract:
   A common view holds that slaves freed on condition of paramone were juridical halfings, legally half-free, half-slave. This paper argues that this view is based on a misunderstanding of the Greek sources, mainly epigraphic; that the intermediate or hybrid juridical state of conditional freedom is a modern invention; that the evidence for manumission in the Greek world suggests overwhelmingly that polities constructed liberty and slavery as a binary pair, rather than poles on a spectrum.