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Classical Athens
Tracey Rihll
The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 1, Volume: 1, Pages: 48 - 73
Swansea University Author: Tracey Rihll
Abstract
Slaves accompanied ancient Athenians from cradle to grave. They worked in the home, agriculture, the market, the mines, workshops, construction sites, on the battlefield, and at sea. The ease with which someone might move from free to slave status, and the relative ease with which they might move fr...
| Published in: | The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 1 |
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| Published: |
CUP
2011
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11516 |
| Abstract: |
Slaves accompanied ancient Athenians from cradle to grave. They worked in the home, agriculture, the market, the mines, workshops, construction sites, on the battlefield, and at sea. The ease with which someone might move from free to slave status, and the relative ease with which they might move from slave back to free if they had saleable skills in one domain or another, impacted strongly on the Greek psyche. They became very sensitive to what needed defending to preserve or to deserve liberty, and philosophized about power relations between individuals and communities. Others developed advanced management skills that could be applied to the free as well as the enslaved. |
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| Item Description: |
Chapter 3. pp. 48-73. |
| Keywords: |
Slavery, Greek history, ancient Athens |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
48 |
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73 |