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Slavery was a widely accepted practice in ancient Greece, as it was in contemporaneous societies. [2] The principal use of slaves was in agriculture, but they were also used in stone quarries or mines, as domestic servants, or even as a public utility, as with the demosioi of Athens.
Since helots were much less susceptible than other slaves in Greek antiquity to having their family units dispersed, they could reproduce themselves, or at least maintain their number. [45] Probably not insignificant to begin with, their population increased in spite of the crypteia, other massacres of helots (see below), and losses in war ...
Besides manual labor, slaves performed many domestic services, and might be employed at highly skilled jobs and professions. Teachers, accountants, and physicians were often slaves. Greek slaves in particular might be highly educated. Unskilled slaves, or those condemned to slavery as punishment, worked on farms, in mines, and at mills.
A house slave was a slave who worked, and often lived, in the house of the slave-owner, performing domestic labor. House slaves performed essentially the same duties as all domestic workers throughout history, such as cooking, cleaning, serving meals, and caring for children; however, their slave status could expose them to more significant ...
Although many were slaves or metics (and state-run brothels staffed by slaves were said to have been part of Solon's reforms), [162] Athenian-born women also worked in the sex trade in Athens. [163] Pornai apparently charged one to six obols for each sexual act; [ 164 ] hetairai were more likely to receive gifts and favours from their clients ...
Despite their stylized expressions, these inscriptions offer an insights into Greek social and demographic history. Over 60% of the manumission inscriptions of Delphi concern female slaves. A comparison of prices proves that most female slaves were manumitted at a price roughly 20% lower than men.
Ancient Greek slaves and freedmen (2 C, 32 P) Pages in category "Slavery in ancient Greece" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The status of a pallake could be both free and a slave. A free concubine was often a former hetaira, a freedwoman or a woman from a poor family, and almost always a foreigner, not a member of the city state she lived in. [4] An enslaved pallake was usually captured in war and brought back to Greece, either for the use of their captor, or to be ...