The Usefulness of an Onesimus: The Sexual Use of Slaves and Paul’s Letter to Philemon

Abstract

The completion of this article was made possible by the generous support of a faculty research grant from Ball State University. 1 Unless otherwise noted, all classical references follow the available LCL translations. The translation of Horace is taken from Craig A. Williams, Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Mas culinityculinity in Classical Antiquity (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 32, while the Petronius and Seneca translations can be found in Moses I. Finley, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology (New York: Viking, 1980), 96.

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