Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Athens, Roman Italy, Tetrapod

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

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If you look around scholarly world, you can go for a long time w out encountering discussion of slavery in part bc strong tendency to idealize the greeks slavery doesn"t fit with that idealization. Slaves rep 100,000/425,000 in 431 bc large section of population. Always people forced into labour: there were always free men engaged in productive labour, not free hired labour, but free men working on their own (or leased) land, shop, etc, working for their own benefit. Of property, the first and most necessary kind, the best and most manageable is man. Therefore the first step is to procure good slaves. ([aristotle], oeconomica. For aristotle they were natural" slaves: but this did not mean that the practice disappeared. Classics lecture 12 the language of slavery is prominent in the greek of the new testament: slavery" is a flexible term.