Le rivolte servili come epifenomeno dei conflitti politici nel mondo greco

[Machine translation] According to a widespread belief in modern studies, in classical Greece, ser-vile revolts would have seen as protagonists almost exclusively helots and slaves of the ilotic type, but not the so-called commodity slaves, too heterogeneous within them to form a common front against the community of the free. Yet the classical sources convey the idea of a meandering fear about the possibility of a slave revolt and the article intends to examine the apparent contradiction between the expression of such fears and the rarity of servile revolts in classical Greece. It appears that slaves often participated in the struggles within the poleis or in the wars between poleis, placing themselves at the side of one of the parties in conflict, revealing that the servile revolts did not assume the contours of spontaneous insurrections against the community of the free, but were instead inserted into internal conflicts within the latter as an epiphenomenon of such conflicts.