Among these are:
- Johann Caspar Friedrich Manso of Breslau, a man of the Enlightenment, who published a multi-volume History of Sparta, to wit, Sparta: Ein Versuch zur Aufklärung der Geschichte und Verfassung dieses States (1800-1805), in three volumes: Volume 1 // Volume 2 // Volume 3.
- Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which Finley considers to be "arguably the first modern history tout court" (p.90), as much as he relegated slavery to a small section
- Lorenzo Pignoria, De Servis Quondam Rei Librariae Adhibitis, 1674 (1694; 1702; 1747)
- William Blair, An Inquiry into State of Slavery among the Romans, 1833
- B. Büchsenschütz, Besitz und Erwerb im griechischen Alterthume, 1869.
To be continued
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