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Greek Slavery grew out of desperateness to pay living expenses. Although Athens had enough money to provide equal living for all Athenians, the money was unequally divided. One outcome is that some poor Athenians were not able to collect enough savings to support themselves. According to “Slaves to Democracy, “ Often the only thing they had available to use was their own bodies, so if they were unable to pay, they were force to become slaves.” One can conclude that this is how the slaves family was being paid.
The intistution of slavery allowed democracy to flourish. Athenian democracy required that citizens give up a numerous amount of their time . For example , “ Decisions concerning important and domestic matters were ultimately …show more content…
In Ancient Athen, “Often male slaves stood naked on a podium to allow buyers to see them from all angles.” This quote reveals that slave masters looked for slaves that were physically capable of doing the vigourous labor. Further proof of the purpose of this method is that “The slave could also be asked to exercises to reveal any physical impairments; if he had hidden handicaps or other severe defects the buyer failed to notice, the transaction to be annulled”( 31.) . From an slave master’s point of view, they could spent many drachmas on a person. In addition, a slave master needed to make money Therefore, the slave master thought it was necessary to make sure that slave was well worth the price.
Atheninan Law prevented a slave from being a victim of murderer by his owner. In the following quote, Antiphondescribes the impact of the law for a slave’s protection:
So powerful is the compultion of the law, that even if a man slays one who is own chattel i.e his slave and who has no one to avenge him, his fear of the ordinances of god and man causes him to purify himself and withhold himself from those places prescribed by the law, in hope that by doing so he will avoid disaster. (Fordham).
The law was put into place because Athenians were naturally afraid of the gods. To the Greeks, the action of homicide was interpreted as something impure. Therefore, they took action to prevent this kind of impurity. The Greeks were …show more content…
From the statement above , one can concluded that the slave was a pivitol member of the member of the houshole. Owner depended on the slaves to do their bidding and help put money into the household. Without the slave and no one else to run ir, the household would fall into utter chaos.
Aristole also ponder whather is what right to own another human being. According to Phronesis, “ Aristole believed that the majority on human beings were may be enslaved without injustice, because they are slaves by nature.” That is, Aristotle believed that humans should be slave because they were products of nature. In nature, only the strong surive.He centered his analysis on non-Grrek people, which were then known as