There were a lot of jobs, and so about a third of the people living in ancient Greece were slaves. Women slaves were even worse off because in ancient Greece, women were believed to be less intelligent and important than men. The two major owners of slaves in ancient Greece were the state, where slaves were employed as police and various other public functions, and also wealthy businessmen, who supplied slaves for working in the mines. In the economy of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, chattel slavery was the model used in order to solidify the description of a slave. Traditionally, studies of Ancient Greece focus on the political, military and cultural achievements of Greek men. The huge slave populations of the Romans were unknown in ancient Greece. It is certain that rural slavery was very common in Athens, and that ancient Greece did not know of the immense slave populations found on the Roman latifundia. Slaves were treated differently in ancient Greece depending upon what their purpose was.
There were many different ways in which a person could have become a slave in ancient Greece. It is difficult to estimate the number of slaves in ancient Greece, given the lack of a precise census and variations in definitions during that era. A natural slave theory essentially states that slavery is a fact of biology, a natural condition of some people.Herodotus (5.6) particularly noted the Thracians’ willingness to sell even their own children into slavery, and Xenophon (Anabasis 7) refers several times in his account his adventures in Thrace in 399 to the activities of slave traders from Byzantium.Modern historiographical practice distinguishes between chattel slavery (personal possession, where the slave was regarded as a piece of property as opposed to a mobile member of society) versus land-bonded groups such as the penestae of Thessaly or the Spartan helots, who were more like medieval serfs (an enhancement to real estate).This book is good because not only does it educate children about Ancient Greece but it also shows then that slavery is bad.Although more engagement with previous scholarship might have been an asset, Wrenhaven makes a valuable contribution to the field: given the breadth of material she covers and the clarity of her prose, her book will be of interest to anyone working on ancient slavery and will make an especially good addition to undergraduate courses on Greek slavery.Ancient Greece practiced slavery and Athens was considered in many ways to be the model for other city-states.Even if they were not slaves most of the people in Ancient Greece had a very low standard of living.Some scholars have made educated guesses, but the slave population varied significantly across different regions of Greece.It is difficult to estimate the number of slaves in ancient Greece, given the lack of a precise census and variations in definitions during that era.
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