ch2 athenian slavery grk 101
Oral Greek... ὦ μαθητά / μαθητρίδι· ἆρα εἶ ἰσχυρός; / ἰσχυρά; ναί, ὦ δέσποτα, _______ οὐχί, ὦ δέσποτα, ________ τί οὐκ αἴρει ὁ Δικαιόπολις τὸ ἄροτρον; ὦ Δικαιόποολι· _______ τὸ ἄροτρον!! ὁ Δικαιόπολις οὐ καλεῖ τὸν βοῦν ὦ Δικαιόπολι· ________ τὸν βοῦν!!!! 1/1/2019 grk 101
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Athenian/Greek Slavery Informational, Corrective Notes. . .
Pseudo-Xenophon 1.10 (ca. 425 BCE) “One is not permitted to strike them. . . . Let me explain why. If the law permitted a free man to strike a slave or metic or a freedman, he would often find that he had mistaken an Athenian for a slave and struck him, for, as far as clothing and general appearance go, the common people look just the same as slaves and metics.” So, you couldn’t strike your own slave, either? . . 20-sep-10 grk 101
Athenian/Greek Slavery. . . Attic population, ca. 431 citizens, 60k metics, 30k slaves, 100k Origins, Ethnicities? Greek & non- Roles skilled unskilled agricultural industrial mineral municipal etc. etc. numbers many! (100,000 in 431 BCE !?) origins mostly non-Greek role agriculture household manufacturing mining all-around help 20-sep-10 grk 101
Cholleidai ?? Athens Mines of Laurium/Lavrio
Attic population, ca. 431 citizens, 50k metics, 25k slaves, 100k origins mostly non-Greek role agriculture household manufacturing mining all-around help