AGENCIA, ESCLAVITUD DOMÉSTICA Y MAGIA EN EL MUNDO ROMANO.

This contribution offers a general overview of the topic of magic and slavery with special attention to domestic slavery. Different from the dialectic confrontation on ancient slavery during the second half of the XXth Century, the new interpretative models of the sociology of graeco-roman magic focus on the detailed analysis of the motivations expressed in the sources. These motivations do not reflect an stereotyped behaviour of the social status of the agents: they are rather fluctuating. In this regard, the kind of tensions perceived are not exclusively vertical but, more frequently, they show horizontal tensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]