how do greek slaves spend their daily life?

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I'm doing my essay

Answer 1

A lot depended on the Slave's status. If they was a 'laborer' he/she faced a day of grubby hard work. Imagine your Mom for example - - - what does she do? Imagining a 'typical American Mom' she is expected to provid three nutricious meals a day plus snacks, she must keep the house clean, cleaning after you & siblings, she must mend clothing and perhaps make new items of clothing. All of those househild chores - - - in an age without electricty etc - - - so Mom would be washing those items of clothing by hand in a basin, her hands in a vial flesh damaging chemical vat (soap).

There were a variety of slaves and oddly enough, by modern standards, they held a variety of jobs. Now imagine one of your teachers - - - male, mid forties - - - what does he do, he teaches a horde of snarling arrogant teenagers bored & looking to cause trouble & grief, Many a scholarly type during the time of the Greeks, many such men found themselves on the losing side in a war, but because they could teach, they did so - - - as slaves. Some might luck out, their job would be to tutor one or two children, So that slaves day would consist of two to four hours lecturing/teaching their students and perhaps another two hours to preparing lessons for the next day. So an eight hour day and the rest of the day relax, go see a movie er ah play, check out the hotties at The Temple of Venus or whatever.

A laborer's days would be more crushing. Two old sayings, 'Burning Daylight,' and 'Time is Money.; A laboer slave would be awoken just before dawn, fed a meal of bread & beer, and then sent out tp dig ditches or break roks for a road widening project. At least four maybe six hours of hard physical work before a fifteen minute break for more beer & bread & perhaps a handful of olives and some figs, then back to work for another four to six hours, the day's work measured against avalible day light. As the suns sets tools are put away, the slaves marched to a stream to bathe, then fed a modest supper and expected to go to sleep right after so they can awake rereshed the next day.

O-K enough - - - you get the gist of it - - - let your mind flow, what jobs do you see around you. How does that person fill up their day. It is the same today as it was in Ancient Greece.

Peace....

Answer 2

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Answer 3

"Slaves had no power or status. They had the right to have a family and own property, however they had no political rights. By 600 BC chattel slavery had spread in Greece. By the 5th century BC slaves made up one-third of the total population in some city-states. Slaves outside of Sparta almost never revolted because they were made up of too many nationalities and were too scattered to organize."

"Most families owned slaves as household servants and labourers, and even poor families might have owned a few slaves. Owners were not allowed to beat or kill their slaves. Owners often promised to free slaves in the future to encourage slaves to work hard. Unlike in Rome, slaves who were freed did not become citizens. Instead, they were mixed into the population of metics, which included people from foreign countries or other city-states who were officially allowed to live in the state."

"City-states legally owned slaves. These public slaves had a larger measure of independence than slaves owned by families, living on their own and performing specialized tasks. In Athens, public slaves were trained to look out for counterfeit coinage, while temple slaves acted as servants of the temple's deity."

"Sparta had a special type of slaves called helots. Helots were Greek war captives owned by the state and assigned to families where they were forced to stay. Helots raised food and did household chores so that women could concentrate on raising strong children while men could devote their time to training as hoplites. Their masters treated them harshly and helots often revolted."

"Ancient Greece : Social Structure" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Social_Structure

"The study of slavery in Ancient Greece poses a number of significant methodological problems. Documentation is disparate and very fragmented, concentrating on the city of Athens. There is no treatise devoted specifically to the subject. Judicial activities of the 4th century BC were interested in slavery only insofar as a source of revenue."

"It is difficult to appreciate the condition of Greek slaves. According to pseudo-Aristotle (Economics, 1344a35), the daily routine of slaves could be summed up in three words: "work, discipline, and feeding". Xenophon's advice is to treat slaves as domestic animals, that is to say punish disobedience and reward good behaviour (Economics, XIII, 6). For his part, Aristotle prefers to see slaves treated as children, and to use not only orders, but also recommendations, as the slave is capable of understanding reasons when they are explained (Politics, I, 3, 14)."

"Greek literature abounds with scenes of slaves being flogged: it was a means of forcing work, as was control of rations, clothing, and rest. This violence could be meted out by the master as well as the supervisor; who was possibly also a slave. Thus, at the beginning of Aristophanes' The Knights, two slaves complain of being "bruised and thrashed without respite" [13] by their new supervisor. However, Aristophanes himself cites what is a typical old saw in Ancient Greek comedy (Peace, v. 743–749):"

" "He also dismissed those slaves who kept on running off, or deceiving someone, or getting whipped. They were always led out crying, so one of their fellow slaves could mock the bruises and ask then: 'Oh you poor miserable fellow, what's happened to your skin? Surely a huge army of lashes from a whip has fallen down on you and laid waste your back?'" "

"In fact, the condition of slaves varied very much according to their status: the mine slave of Laurion lived a particularly brutal existence, while city slaves enjoyed relative independence. In return for a fee (ἀποφορά / apophora) paid to their master, they could live and work alone. They could thus earn some money on the side; sometimes enough to purchase their freedom. Potential emancipation was in effect a powerful motivator, though the real scale of this is difficult to estimate. Pseudo-Xenophon goes so far as to deplore 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" (Constitution of the Athenians, I, 10)."

"This alleged good treatment did not prevent 20,000 Athenian slaves from running away at the end of the Peloponnesian War, on the incitement of the Spartan garrison at Attica in Decelea. And these were principally skilled artisans and tradespersons, probably amongst the better-treated slaves. Conversely, the absence of a large-scale Greek slave revolt, comparable to that of Spartacus in Rome for instance, can undoubtedly be explained by the relative dispersion of Greek slaves, which would have prevented any large-scale planning. It should be noted though that slave revolts were rare, even in Rome or the Confederate States of America."

"Slavery in ancient Greece : Slavery conditions" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Ancient_Greece#Slavery_conditions

"Ancient History Sourcebook: Documents on Greek Slavery, c. 750 - 330 BCE" : http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-slaves.html

"Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity", W.L.Westermann 1955 : http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0871690403&id=QXbkoJP_u5oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=greek&as_brr=1