The nature and origin of their bond to the divinity is unclear. Slaves of the god are always mentioned by name and own their own land their legal status is close to that of freemen. Two legal categories can be distinguished: "slaves (εοιο)" and "slaves of the god (θεοιο)", the god in this case probably being Poseidon. Slaves were present through the Mycenaean civilization, as documented in numerous tablets unearthed in Pylos 140. Women as plunder of war: Ajax the Lesser taking Cassandra, tondo of a red-figure kylix by the Kodros Painter, c. σῶμα ( sōma) – literally "body", used in the context of emancipation.παῖς ( pais) – literally "child", used in the same way as " houseboy", also used in a derogatory way to call adult slaves.Also, the diminutive ἀκολουθίσκος, used for page boys. ἀκόλουθος ( akolouthos) – literally, "the follower" or "the one who accompanies".θεράπων ( therapōn) – At the time of Homer, the word meant "companion" ( Patroclus was referred to as the therapōn of Achilles and Meriones that of Idomeneus) but during the classical age, it meant "servant".Other terms used to indicate slaves were less precise and required context: Finally, the term οἰκέτης ( oiketēs) was used, as meaning "one who lives in house", referring to household servants. The verb δουλεὐω (which survives in Modern Greek, meaning "work") can be used metaphorically for other forms of dominion, as of one city over another or parents over their children. The most common word for slaves is δοῦλος ( doulos), used in opposition to "free man" (ἐλεύθερος, eleútheros) an earlier form of the former appears in Mycenaean inscriptions as do-e-ro, "male slave" (or "servant", "bondman" Linear B: 𐀈𐀁𐀫), or do-e-ra, "female slave" (or "maid-servant", "bondwoman"). During the classical period, the Greeks frequently used ἀνδράποδον ( andrapodon), (literally, "one with the feet of a man") as opposed to τετράποδον ( tetrapodon), "quadruped" or livestock. The term has a general meaning but refers particularly to war prisoners taken as booty (in other words, property). In the works of Homer, Hesiod and Theognis of Megara, the slave was called δμώς ( dmōs). The ancient Greeks had several words to indicate slaves, which leads to textual ambiguity when they are studied out of their proper context. Terminology Ī master (right) and his slave (left) in a phlyax play, Silician red-figured calyx-krater, c. Greek comedies and tragedies represented stereotypes, while iconography made no substantial differentiation between slaves and craftsmen. No treatises are specifically devoted to the subject, and jurisprudence was interested in slavery only as much as it provided a source of revenue. Documentation is disjointed and very fragmented, focusing primarily on the city-state of Athens. The academic study of slavery in ancient Greece is beset by significant methodological problems. The chattel slave is an individual deprived of liberty and forced to submit to an owner, who may buy, sell, or lease them like any other chattel. Modern historiographical practice distinguishes between chattel slavery (where the slave was regarded as a piece of property, as opposed to a member of human society) and land-bonded groups such as the penestae of Thessaly or the Spartan helots, who were more like medieval serfs (an enhancement to real estate). The principal use of slaves was in agriculture, but they were also used in stone quarries or mines, and as domestic servants. Slavery was a widely accepted practice in ancient Greece, as it was in contemporaneous societies. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This article contains special characters.
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