ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the exercise of “thinking with slaves” may help one understand how sociorhetorics and the process of silencing slaves operate in the Acts of Andrew. The Greek Acts of Andrew, also known as “The Passion of Andrew,” is a section of the Acts of Andrew that depicts the events of Andrew’s second visit to Patras and Achaia, leading up to his arrest and his eventual martyrdom. The chapter argues that Euclia’s used, abused, and mutilated slave body served as a canvas on which the author paints various social, political, and theological purposes. It demonstrates how noticing slaves as characters in the text and paying attention to gaps and silences might help us in considering the macro-political dimension of the text. The slave character Euclia may be demonstrative of how the author imagines the place of slaves within a Christian empire, an empire that is incrementally dislodging and destabilizing the incumbent one.
