CLST 100 Lecture 7: Week 7
25 Nov 2014
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The attitude of written sources is strongly biased only wealth derived from land is honourable, as it is associated with social stability and status. Trade and manual craftsmanship are despised and considered suitable only for the lowest classes, foreigners and slaves. This picture is clearly misleading, and there is ample evidence that the. Xenophon, memorabilia i came home when the war ended, socrates, and am now living here, he replied. Since we have lost our foreign property, and my father left me nothing in. Attica, i am forced to settle down here now and work for my living with my hands. I think it"s better than begging, especially as i have no security to offer for a loan. In the 5th bce the agriculture of attike could feed most of the local population. At the outbreak of the peloponnesian war a large part of the population was made of farmers who lived on countryside.
