CLST 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Metic, Strategos, Ephebos
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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. Significant concentra>on of land in the hands of few was discouraged: the ideal was economic self-sufficiency based on agriculture. Agriculture and society: slave labour was used, especially after the persian wars, but it was not a great factor, because of the size of the estates, their dispersed location and the cyclical nature of. Mediterranean agriculture made the use of large groups of slaves inefficient: a part of the agricultural produce, in particular olive oil, could be exported.