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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.
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.
Paedagogus with two boys. Small terracotta from Tanagra, Greece, 4th century BC.. In the ancient Greece, a paidagogos παιδαγωγός (Ancient greek) was a slave entrusted with supervising boys from the age of seven and in Roman Republic, the paedagogus, plural paedagogi or paedagogiani, [1] was a slave or a freedman who taught the sons of Roman citizens [2] the Greek language. [3]
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Doulos (Ancient Greek: δοῦλος, Greek: δούλος, Linear B: do-e-ro) is a Greek masculine noun meaning "slave". Doulos may refer to: Doulos may refer to: A slave (δοῦλος) in ancient Greece ; see also Slavery in Ancient Rome as well as Slavery in the New Testament and Slavery in antiquity .
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