... command while others merely meant to follow. However, although the Athenian use of slavery was indeed paradoxical, generally both slaves and masters accepted slavery as a way of life. A justification for slavery was in a sense assimilated into the democratic Athenian culture through physical and mental comparisons, the necessity of the duties of slaves, and the unique relationships formed between slave and master. The ancient Athenians believed there was an inborn trait in ... reasonless on their own, and being enslaved actually improves them in the same manner as the domesticating of w...

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