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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.
Although many were slaves or metics (and state-run brothels staffed by slaves were said to have been part of Solon's reforms), [162] Athenian-born women also worked in the sex trade in Athens. [163] Pornai apparently charged one to six obols for each sexual act; [ 164 ] hetairai were more likely to receive gifts and favours from their clients ...
[16] [17] Additionally, it was illegal at the time, for citizens of Athens to marry non-Athens people. If caught, non-Athens women were oftentimes sold into slavery as punishment, and men were fined heavily. In more severe circumstances, disenfranchisement was another punishment. [18] Classical Athens idealized extreme female seclusion. [19]
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is one of the authors of classical Greece who took a particular interest in the condition of women within the Greek world. In a predominantly patriarchal society, he undertook, through his works, to explore and sometimes challenge the injustices faced by women and certain social or moral norms concerning them.
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is a 1975 feminist history book by Sarah B. Pomeroy. The work covers the lives of women in antiquity from the Greek Dark Ages to the death of Constantine the Great. [1] The book was one of the first English works on women's history in any period. [2]
The Scythian archers were a hypothesized police force of 5th- and early 4th-century BC Athens that is recorded in some Greek artworks and literature. The force is said to have consisted of 300 armed Scythians (a nomadic Iranic people living in the Eurasian Steppe) who were public slaves in Athens.
Strabo also wrote that in respect of Greek Goddess Anaitis, there have been temples built to honor Her and male and female virgin slaves have been dedicated to Her there. After engaging in this type of prostitution at the temple of Anaitis, no one would want to marry these women. Similar activities occurred in Cyprus for Aphrodite. [6]
The only women who would normally be seen out in the street were logically the prostitutes. The intrigues of the New Comedy thus often involved prostitutes. Ovid, in his Amores, states "Whil'st Slaves be false, Fathers hard, and Bauds be whorish, Whilst Harlots flatter, shall Menander flourish." [33] (I, 15, 17–18).