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In Ancient Greece it was extremely common for every household to own a slave. Slavery at this time underpinned the entire fabric of the society. All aspects of life including business, family and political life relied on a class of people who carried out menial and degrading tasks for their masters (Corr, 2000). The number of slaves in Ancient Greek times is somewhat varied, Dillon and Garland suggest that in 430 BC there may have been 70,000 slaves in Athens and at the time of it’s greatest prosperity there may have been as many as 80-100,000. This essay will discuss how Greek slaves were acquired, how were they treated and were they a significant element in the work force? In order to answer this question properly I must first define what a slave is. A slave is someone who is the property of somebody else, according to the laws of the place they live in (History for kids, date unknown). The slaves in Ancient Greek times were thought of as property by their masters and were assigned names which they were called by and weren’t permitted to use their own birth name. Much like we name a car in today’s society.
There many ways in which salves could be acquired. A person could be born int
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In Greece slaves performed many tasks. The work a slave did depended very much so on their sex. Male slaves could be mineworkers, ship crewmembers, household slaves, clerks at treasury offices or land workers. In Athens male slaves could also be archers (Dillon and Garland 2000, 11.7). Women slaves were generally household slaves who were responsible for such duties as shopping, fetching water, cooking, serving food, cleaning, child-care, and wool-working (Crystalinks, date accessed 14th June 2001). Basically male salves were assigned to agricultural duties and female slaves were assigned domestic duties. The male slaves that worked in the mines or as a ship’s crewmember usually did not live long because of the grueling work and dangerous conditions of their work (Crystalinks, date accessed 14th June 2001). Female slaves were also known to have close relationships with their mistresses. Because of the seclusion of upper class women in the private realms of their homes, many sought out confidantes in their slave girls (Crystalinks, date accessed 14th June 2001). From this we can see that the range of duties for slaves depended greatly on their sex. From this it looks as though women slaves had it better off then their male counterparts, this was not the case. Slave women were at a disadvantage in Greek society not only because of their gender but because of their underprivileged status in the social hierarchy (Crystalinks, date accessed 14th June 2001). Female slaves were treated very differently to the male slaves.
In conclusion slaves were a crucial part of Greek society. They were the main work force and without them many jobs would not have been done. Most slaves were treated fairly because they were considered a possession, a valuable possession. Free citizens considered themse
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RELATED ESSAYS |
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Slavery in Athens The presence of slavery in Athenian ancient Greece is one of the greatest paradoxes in all of recorded history. The Athenian culture .... |
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Comparative Slavery .... the legal code does have regulating instructions about slavery it does not deal with the slave as commodity as did the legal codes of ancient Greece & Rome]. .... |
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Odyssey .... The the final class in Greece was the slaves. Slavery was common in ancient Greece, as it was all over at this time period. Slaves .... |
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Greece .... The similarities (such as self indulgence, slavery, and gay pride) between their "Golden Age .... In ancient Greece, public drama was more than drunken orgies. .... |
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Ancient Influences on the Modern West .... Hammurabi dealt with crime, injury, consumer protection, slavery, personal and professional .... In ancient Greece, everyone 's rights were not equal. .... |
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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS |
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Women in Ancient Greece & Rome life and death over his children; could sell his child into slavery for whatever Women in ancient Greece lived through a period of oppression, where they were |
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Works of Ancient Greece Slavery in the polis was common, and most economies were driven largely by deep love for· the city-state was fever-pitched in ancient Greece, effacing present |
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Periclean Democracy Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. New York: De Capo Press, 1993. Robinson, CE Everyday Life in Ancient Greece, 2nd Ed. New York: AMS Press, 1977. |
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The Ascendancy of the Greek Polis Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. New York: De Capo Press, 1993. Robinson, CE Everyday Life in Ancient Greece, 2nd Ed. New York: AMS Press, 1977. |
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Women in Ancient Rome life and death over his children; could sell his child into slavery for whatever Women in ancient Greece lived through a period of oppression, where they were |
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Depictions of African blacks in Greco Roman Art (Patterson A). --- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. "The Negro in Ancient Greece." American Anthropologist 50 (1948): 31-44. Fig. |
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