CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Upper Class, Piraeus, Metic
7 Jul 2018
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Written source has a biases (only show the small proportion of the social class) People who trade (risk connecting to the trading, get money or lose money both are bad for conservative sources) are described as a bad people. Did not want to have poor people to become wealthy (did not want them (wealthy people) to be poor)) Common to point out some of them are good/questionable citizen (radical politicians in athens: agriculture and society: Emphasis shift to the economy biases (the agriculture) Wealthier athenians have more and better land (not enormously large than other citizens) No larger portion of land all owned by same person. Oikos (property): no one will be so rich to control all of the properties (being self-suicient by the agriculture: agriculture and society: Don"t need to have large amount of slaves (those are expensive to take care) You can still be athenians if you did not own the land.
