Sometimes parents sold their children into slavery . [69] Secondly, the names given to slaves in the comedies often had a geographical link; thus Thratta, used by Aristophanes in The Wasps, The Acharnians, and Peace, simply meant a Thracian woman. They worked in the fields, on farms, in orchards, and in vineyards. ), This page was last edited on 11 October 2022, at 23:25. "[148] As opposed to an animal, a slave can comprehend reason but "has not got the deliberative part at all. copyright 2003-2022 Study.com. 2, pp. An error occurred trying to load this video. Conversely, an offence committed against a slave was much less expensive than an offence committed against a free person. They primarily date to the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, and the 1st century AD. In ancient slavery's hoary history there was never a people or a race of people who were singled out as slave workers. A newly bought slave was welcomed with nuts and fruits, just like a newly-wed wife. Yet, perhaps most shocking are the slaves who engaged in fields normally reserved for free men. Yet, like all other aspects of Greek culture, Greek slavery also varied from city to city. Greek politicians created the world's first democracy. It loves mirrors and dyeing hair[xanthismata], but avoids efforts. And what of the use of the curling iron, as Nordics have relatively straighter hair than the people of Southern Europe and the Middle East? People didn't necessarily see slaves as inferior. Angel, J.L., 1945,Skeletal Material from Attica, Hesperia, 14(4), pp. Discover how slaves in Athens lived and worked. Aris N. Poulianos. Greeks enslaved men, women, and children from all over the world. et al., 2005,International anthropometric study of facial morphology in various ethnic groups/races, J Craniofac Surg. [160] Society without slaves is thus relegated to a different time and space. It concerned itself with distinguishing the phases in the organisation of human societies and correctly identifying the place of Greek slavery. On the other hand, to the Spartans, the helots were just a group of people to be harried and beaten into submission, and they regularly murdered the helots to keep their population (and their rebellion) under control - whereas, to the Athenians, each slave was an investment; they must be fed, clothed and cared for in order to make their master a profit. Slaves working in the mines didn't live very long. [133] This alleged good treatment did not prevent 20,000 Athenian slaves from running away at the end of the Peloponnesian War at the incitement of the Spartan garrison at Attica in Decelea. Some inscriptions imply a mock process of that type could be used for a master to grant his slave complete freedom in a legally binding manner. There was a multitude of categories, ranging from free citizen to chattel slave, and including penestae or helots, disenfranchised citizens, freedmen, bastards, and metics. Fortunately, Greek originals were copied by the Romans, and several frescoes with themes from life and mythology have survived in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Etn., vol. They were allowed to practice their own religions and their owners could not hit them. * Keharvbs (black or dark)g and ~ubvtos (dark),'O however, were also used. These included the Minoans, who were not Greeks at all, and who built an impressive civilization on the island of Crete. Farkas, L.G. 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). It can be layered endlessly. It is believed that in 385 B.C., there were 100,000 people enslaved in Athens. It appears that the major division in Mycenaean civilization was not between a free individual and a slave but rather if the individual was in the palace or not.[21][22]. There is also evidence of slaves from Syria, Illyria, Macedon and Ethiopia. 1962. Robin Osborne, in Classical Greece 500 - 323 BC, states that it was Thracians, Anatolians (from Caria, Cappadocia, Phrygia, Lydia etc) and Syrians who were most numerous. Fear of the unknown and of the unusual would contribute to the notion that possessors of such eyes must be malign; hence the long association of blue and the Evil Eye which has lasted in Greece and the surrounding area until modern times. Minoan, Cycladic, Mycenaean, Classical, Modern. Starr, C.G., 1991,Origins of Greek Civilization, W. W. Norton & Company, London, p. 132. The prolonged wars with the Persians and other peoples provided many slaves, but the majority of slaves were . "[162] This was spoken about in legal proceedings, suggesting that it would have been a widely accepted way of treating slaves. Antiphon viewed slaves as a bit more than common animals or tools. By viewing slaves as tools of a household, it creates another reason for acceptance of slavery. It is thus not a product of the early Greeks who supposedly saw light eyes all around them and named their irises after the rainbow. Surely a huge army of lashes from a whip has fallen down on you and laid waste your back? The female slave carried out domestic tasks, in particular bread baking and textile making. Answer- Slavery was not connected with race in the ancient world. Chattel slaves were miners, farmers, and rowers among other things. 1-32, Debets, G.F., 1951,Zasselenie Perednei Azii, In. There were two racial types in ancient Greece: dark-haired whites and fair-haired whites, as well as gradations in between. Ancient Greece and Roman Empire Employing female and occasionally male slaves for prostitution was common in the Hellenistic and Roman world. There were also different types of slavery. Some of these trades were quite harsh. This included military service. 183-185, Angel, J.L., 1946,Race, Type, and Ethnic Group in Ancient Greece, Human Biology, 18(1), pp. Was there any new military innovation during the Siege of Malta? [87], Slaves could not own property, but their masters often let them save up to purchase their freedom,[88] and records survive of slaves operating businesses by themselves, making only a fixed tax-payment to their masters. Slave ownership in ancient Greece was widespread even in the poorest communities. Ancient Greek Slavery was quite prominent in ancient Greece. [3] For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. In this type of society, as explained by Plato,[158] one reaped generously without sowing. The great paradox of Greek history is that the many successes of the nation, built on a pursuit of freedom, equality, and democracy, were largely due to the Greeks' enslavement of their fellow man. It was not primarily an ethnicity or race issue. Greek slaves were either of Greek origin or from neighboring lands. He was liable to all types of obligations, as one can see from the proposals of Plato in The Laws:[116] presentation three times monthly at the home of the former master, forbidden to become richer than him, etc. Lundman, B.J., 1962,The Racial History of Scandinavia: An Outline, Mankind Quarterly, 3, pp. Slaves also worked the fields, orchards and vineyards of Greece, though never on the level of the plantations of the Roman Republic or Antebellum America. Eurocentric: the ancient Egyptians are ancestral to modern Europe. This was historically not a duty of slaves as it led to political participation. Most notably, those slaves who worked alone or engaged in occupations that allowed them to save some of their earnings were eventually able to redeem their freedom from their masters. I brought again to Athens; yea, and some, 119-149, Irwin, E., 1974,Colour Terms in Greek Poetry, Hakkert, Toronto, Buxton, L.H.D., 1920,Physical Anthropology of Ancient and Modern Greeks, Nature, v. 106, pp. Coon in [4] observed that the beauty ideal of a straight nose and a lithe body was borrowed from Minoan Crete which was undisputably peopled by Mediterraneans [5,11]. The only societies without slaves were those of the Golden Age, where all needs were met without anyone having to work. We have already mentioned the testimony of Winckelmann [16] who found classical physiques in modern times in Greek-colonized Southern Italy. The largest single source of slaves was warfare, where the wholesale enslavement of defeated people was quite common one of the oldest words for "slave" in Greek is doryaltos, "won by the spear". [142] From a philosophical point of view, the idea of "natural" slavery emerged at the same time; thus, as Aeschylus states in The Persians, the Greeks "[o]f no man are they called the slaves or vassals",[143] while the Persians, as Euripides states in Helen, "are all slaves, except one"the Great King. However, slavery has existed within democratic societies throughout history, including in ancient Athens, the Greek city-state that is considered the birthplace of democracy. It astonished other Greeks that Athenians tolerated back-chat from slaves. The ethnic origin of helots is uncertain, but they were probably the original inhabitants of Laconia (the area around the Spartan capital) who were reduced to servility after the conquest of their land by the numerically fewer Dorians. These were buried under tons of volcanic ashes and have been brought back, almost intact, by modern archaeology. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times . Second, the wordiriswas only introduced into the Greek language in the late 2nd c. AD (Julius Pollux Gramm., Onomasticon Bk 2 sect. 16, Moscow, Schwidetzky, I., 1954,Das Problem des Voelkertodes, Beddoe, J., 1971,The races of Britain: a contribution to the anthropology of Western Europe, [1st ed. He continues that by painting eyes in proportion (i.e., black) and all other parts of the body in proportion, then the result is beautiful. Hence, it will appear that Plato did not find any fault with dark eyes, he believed them to be beautiful and proposed that statues be painted naturally, i.e., with black eyes.Ion of Chios (5th c. BC) brings some examples of how poetic use of color terms (e.g. 50% have pinkish white skin and the remainder have olive white and light brown skin; few have the ruddy skin despised by Adamantius. Hercules was also proverbiallymelampugos(having a black behind) as indicative of his bravery, as opposed topugargos(having a white behind), a coward [29]. [40] Xenophon suggested that the city buy a large number of slaves, up to three state slaves per citizen, so that their leasing would assure the upkeep of all the citizens. Though Athenian slaves belonged to their master, they still had the right to accumulate their own private property. A few privileged slaves found their way into their master's household, becoming household servants, and generally enjoying a far softer life than their counterparts outdoors. A Greek woman from Paestum; 4. Adamantius also tells us that they are moderately, not very tall, as he despises both very tall and very low stature. Their marriages were not recognized by the court and slave owners could separate married couples and their families at any point. When a new slave arrived at an Athenian home they were often welcomed with a ceremony and gifts. [98], Prior to its interdiction by Solon, Athenians practiced debt enslavement: a citizen incapable of paying his debts became "enslaved" to the creditor. Two legal categories can be distinguished: "slaves ()"[19] and "slaves of the god ()", the god in this case probably being Poseidon. And, of course, all the rights in the world mean nothing when one can be bought and sold like an animal. They could be bought, sold, and beaten, but only by their master. It is certain that at least in some cases, reddish brown is intended, while in others, as e.g., in describing German hair, reddish blond may be appropriate, given the known pigmentation of Germans. But the ancient world including greece was a diverse. No such correlation emerges in Poulianos [10] sample from different regions, which exceeds 3,000 individuals. [71] It is also probable that, as with the Romans, certain nationalities were considered more productive as slaves than others. Gabrielsen, V. "La piraterie et le commerce des esclaves", in E. Erskine (ed. In Ancient Greece, more than 2500 years ago, and the surrounding city states, slavery was the normal condition, not the exception. This essay attempts a critical evaluation of the extant evidence about the racial type of the Ancient Greeks. In an oft-used example, Orestes hair is described as fair, in Euripides Electra (line 515) as a dramatic device aiding Electras recognition of her brother from a lock of his hair on her father Agamemnons tomb. "[141] He also argues that slaves are the most important part of the property as they "take precedence of all the instruments. Mostly the owner of the chariot and the rider were two different people. What is darkish brown to most Englishmen would be chestnut in the nomenclature of most Parisians, and perhaps even blond in that of Auvergne or Provence; an ancient Roman might probably have called it sufflavus or even flavus. | {{course.flashcardSetCount}} According to Karl Marx, the ancient society was characterized by development of private ownership and the dominant (and not secondary as in other pre-capitalist societies) character of slavery as a mode of production. The more urban Athenians practiced good old-fashioned chattel slavery, in which slaves were bought, sold and leased like livestock. 13-14) who shows that people fashion the gods after their own image, and, after ironically saying if oxen had gods they would be like oxen, again uses the stock example of thepurroiandglaukoiThracians, contrasted with the pug-nosed (simoi) and dark (melanes) Ethiopians to show that people fashion their gods after their own image. [47], According to the literature, it appears that the majority of free Athenians owned at least one slave. Jameson argues in favour of a very large use of slaves; Wood (1983 and 1988) disputes it. Pritchett (1961). His discoveries were that like in antiquity, the Greek terrain which favors isolation, has led to the formation of local types by micro-evolution. [53] Enslavement, while not systematic, was common practice. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich. In fact, the status of emancipated slaves was similar to that of metics, the residing foreigners, who were free but did not enjoy a citizens rights. They also significantly faced harsher punishments than free men. [94], In Gortyn, in Crete, according to a code engraved in stone dating to the 3rd century BC, slaves (doulos or oikeus) found themselves in a state of great dependence. Slave owners were responsible for any crimes their slaves committed. People were slaves because their side lost a recent war or as punishment for a crime (something still theoretically allowed in the US). Oftentimes, the sexual activity of slaves was restricted aside from slaves working in brothels or bearing children. [73], Buyers enjoyed a guarantee against latent defects: The transaction could be invalidated if the purchased slave turned out to be crippled and the buyer had not been warned about it.[74]. Quote from video: We often think of ancient greek society as white. Slaves also enjoyed many protections under Athenian law. Slavery in Greece was ubiquitous. We've seen how Greek slaves were acquired, through trade, raid or conquest. Heraclitus states that "[w]ar is the father of all, the king of allhe turns some into slaves and sets others free. 1968,The Old Oligarch, 1.10, Harrow, Cohen, Beth, ed., 2000,Not the Classical Ideal: Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art, Leiden, Poulianos, Aris N., 1961,The Origin of the Greeks, Ph.D. thesis, University of Moscow, supervised by F.G.Debets, Poulianos, Aris N., 1999, 2nd ed.,The Origin of the Cretans, Kyromanos, Thessaloniki, Angel, J. Lawrence, in Mylonas, George E., 1972-1973,Ho taphikos kyklos V ton Mykenon, Ethnike Archaeologike Hetaireia, Athens, Angel, J. Lawrence, 1971,The people of Lerna; analysis of a prehistoric Aegean population, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Coon, C.S., Revised ed. Greeks as Slavs. [93] On the other hand, it is attested in sources that the rape of slaves was prosecuted, at least occasionally. J. Lawrence Angel expressed similar opinions in that he believed that northern intruders in Greece were always of Dinaroid-Alpine central trend [19] added to the earlier Mediterranean/Alpine blend. In some cities this was forbidden, for example with Solon's reforms in Athens it was impossible for an Athenian to be enslaved due to debt. [150], In parallel, the concept that all men, whether Greek or barbarian, belonged to the same race was being developed by the Sophists[151] and thus that certain men were slaves although they had the soul of a freeman and vice versa. b : a member of one of the group of dark-skinned peoples that formed a powerful empire between Egypt and Ethiopia from the 6th to the 14th centuries. [65] In the 1st century BC, however, the Romans largely eradicated piracy to protect the Mediterranean trade routes. [80] Slaves were tortured in trials because they often remained loyal to their masters. When and how did the British Monarchy stop claiming Divine Right. reprinted]; with a new introduction by David Elliston Allen, Hutchinson, London, Battaglia R., in Biasutti R., 1967,Le razze ei popoli della terra, UTET, Turin, Krogman, W.M., 1940,The peoples of early Iran and their ethnic affiliations, American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (a) TheMediterraneantype is characterized by dark hair and eyes, skin that tans easily, a long skull, a relatively narrow face and nose and a lean body build. All rights reserved. By the rules of war of the period, the victor possessed absolute rights over the vanquished, whether they were soldiers or not. It is difficult to appreciate the condition of Greek slaves. There were four primary sources of slaves: war, in which the defeated would become slaves to the victorious unless a more objective outcome was reached; piracy (at sea); banditry (on land); and international trade. As in agriculture, they were used for labour that was beyond the capability of the family. [f] Finally, the nationality of a slave was a significant criterion for major purchasers: Ancient practice was avoid a concentration of too many slaves of the same ethnic origin in the same place, in order to limit the risk of revolt. We've seen how Greek slaves were used in a wide variety of trades. The Greek slaves produced textiles, pottery, armor, and weapons. [27] According to epigraphic evidence, the homicide law of Draco (c.620 BCE) mentioned slaves. Some have even argued that thousands of Middle-Easterners were granted Athenian citizenship during the Peloponesian War (post-411BC) because of the shortage of manpower caused by that conflict. 50-107, Dickinson, O., 1994,The Aegean Bronze Age(Cambridge World Archaeology), Cambridge University Press, Manzelli, V., 1994,La policromia nella statuaria greca arcaica, Studia archeologica 69, Rome. In Rome, Greek slaves were the most highly prized slaves, many were skilled artisans and teachers. Pompeii, 1st C BC. [129] In return for a fee ( / apophora) paid to their master, they could live and work alone. 13, Issue 1, 92-112, Coon, C.S., 1939,The Races of Europe, New York (Macmillan), Baker, J.R., 1974,Race, Oxford University Press, Angel, J. Lawrence, 1944,A racial analysis of the ancient Greeks: An essay on the use of morphological types, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Kilmer, Martin F., 1993,Greek Erotica, London, Duckworth, Hughes, et al., trans. "Five New Fragments of the Attic Stelai". The strategos Nicias leased a thousand slaves to the silver mines of Laurium in Attica; Hipponicos, 600; and Philomids, 300. It is thus certain, that the Greek race described by Adamantius is not that of northerners (Scythians, Celts) who as we know are themselves only partly of Nordic race.To finally establish this fact, we turn to anthropology and try to find correlations between Adamantius description and Greeks. Firstly, certain nationalities are consistently and significantly represented in the slave population, such as the corps of Scythian archers employed by Athens as a police forceoriginally 300, but eventually nearly a thousand. Sergi, G. 1901,The Mediterranean Race: a study of the origin of European peoples, London (Scott), Ripley, W. Z., 1900,The Races of Europe, a sociological study, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, Buxton. Ethiopian King Memnon Was A Greek Mythical Character? Athens had the largest slave population, with as many as 80,000 in the 5th and 6th centuries BC, with an average of three or four slaves per household, except in poor families. An Athenian woman; 2. Very few authors of antiquity call slavery into question. (c) TheAlpinetype is frequent in much of Central Europe and is found throughout the European continent and Western/Central Asia. It admits to many subtypes, due to its wide geographical range, from the Atlantic Ocean to the borders of India. Head of a female Lapith from the scene of the Battle of the Centaurs on the temple of Zeus at Olympia (Photos by Nellys, Benaki Museum); 3. [51], Thucydides estimates that the isle of Chios had proportionally the largest number of slaves.[52]. [112], The slaves freedom could be either total or partial, at the masters whim. In the 5th century BC, Thucydides remarked on the desertion of 20,890 slaves during the war of Decelea, mostly tradesmen. When it came to court cases, Athenian slaves weren't really considered people. Get unlimited access to over 84,000 lessons. Athenian slaves also participated in work that was typically reserved for free people. You could not murder a slave. (f)Manzelli also records that eye colors were black, red, and brown in the majority of surviving examples, with only a single example having green eyes. Now, it is certain, that if the early Hellenes came from northern Greece, being the descendants of Hellen and his sons of Thessaly and Pindos, that they would be lighter in terms of pigmentation than the southern Greeks with whom they blended. Enslaved people were an integral part of society in ancient Greece. [85], However, slaves did belong to their master's household. 's' : ''}}. Though Athenian slaves enjoyed many privileges and protections, they still lacked the greatest of all treasures: freedom. Slaves were also bought with businessmens money. They were then sold to their owners. If it sometimes appears that too much effort is spent in convincing the reader of simple enough points, it is because of my desire not to let any of the arguments of people holding different views unchallenged. If you couldn't afford a slave, you could always kidnap one. Moreover, slaves suffered harsher punishments under the law than their free counterparts. No treatises are specifically devoted to the subject, and jurisprudence was interested in slavery only as much as it provided a source of revenue. Another category of slaves were those who were used for labor and production of wealth in the fields, mines, workshops. For example, women from Mecca were sold as singers and women from Persia were sold to bear children. Did Greece have African slaves? However, scholars continue to debate whether or not the ancient Greeks viewed black Africans with racial prejudice. Girl from Ipati, Greece, circa 1930; 2. Typically from Laconia and Messenia, helots primarily worked in agriculture. George Cedrenus uses it to describe the eyes of the Virgin (xanthommaton); eyes are rarely yellow, unless jaundiced, which seems unlikely in this case. [51] confirms this observation, noting that 53.3% of Greek males and 26.7% of Greek females have a jaw that is wider than the normal range of North American whites. They were perhaps over 70% of the total population. Phalereus who ruled Athens from 317-301 BC found there were 21,000 Greek citizens, 10,000 foreigners and 400,000 slaves living in the city. Even the Thracians to their north are usually depicted in Greek pottery with the same dark hair and the same facial features as the Greeks [9], although in some cases they are depicted as fair as well. Those who live in some well-balanced land which is between these in quality have hair with extremely good growth, which is strong, fairly black, moderately thick, and neither completely curly nor completely straight. [131], Ancient writers considered that Attic slaves enjoyed a "peculiarly happy lot":[132] Pseudo-Xenophon deplores the liberties taken by Athenian slaves: "as for the slaves and Metics of Athens, they take the greatest licence; you cannot just strike them, and they do not step aside to give you free passage". Athens also had a law forbidding the striking of slaves: if a person struck what appeared to be a slave in Athens, that person might find himself hitting a fellow citizen because many citizens dressed no better. [66], There was slave trade between kingdoms and states of the wider region. Good Essays. Angel considered it as the most striking feature of the Greek face. Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. On the topic of a man killing his own slave, he says that the man should "purify himself and withhold himself from those places prescribed by law, in the hope that by doing so he will best avoid disaster. 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