Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece: The Experience of Subordinates, 700―300 BCE

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Voiceless, Invisible, and Countless in Ancient Greece: The Experience of Subordinates, 700–300 BCE
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Subordination in Boiotia
	Works Cited
1: A Moral Economy of the Demos in Early Archaic Greece
	Preface
	Introduction
		Works and Days
	A Moral Economy of the Demos
	The Archaic Greek Moral Economy
	The Moral Economy as a Historical Factor
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
2: Solon and the Demos in his Poetry
	Preface
	Introduction
	Restoration of Citizens
	Subsistence
	Politics
	Conclusion
	Appendix I: Solon’s Use of the Word Δῆμος
	Appendix II: Κακοί and Ἐσθλοί in Fragment 34
	Acknowledgements
	Works Cited
3: Reconstructing the Lives of Urban Craftspeople in Archaic and Classical Greece
	Preface
	Introduction
	Defining Ancient Craftworkers as a Group
	Greek Attitudes towards Banausoi : Diachronic Trends
	Reconstructing the Lives of Workers: Archaeological Contexts
	The Archaeology of Workplaces
	Dedications and Votives
	Mortuary Evidence for Banausoi
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
4: ‘Don’t tell anybody you are a thete!’: Athenian Thetes: Identity and Visibility
	Preface
	The ‘Thetic Ban’: A Paradox of Athenian Democracy?
	Thetes as Wage Labourers
	Thetes between Census Class and Military Function
	Thetes, Penia, and the Importance of Work
	Voices of the Thetes
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Works Cited
5: The Athenian Working Class: Scale, Nature, and Development
	Preface
	‘Wage Labourers’ as a Property Class
	Size and Development of the Athenian Working Class
	The Condition of the Working Class in Archaic Athens
	The Condition of the Working Class in Classical Athens
	Conclusion
	Works Cited
6: The Local Slave Systems of Ancient Greece
	Preface
	Introduction
	Slavery or Something Else?
	Thessaly: A Northern-Greek Slave System
	Lokris: A Central-Greek Slave System
	Herakleia Pontike: A Colonial Slave System
	Khios: An Island Slave System
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	Works Cited
7: How to Find a New Master: The Agency of Enslaved Persons in Ancient Greece
	Preface
	Introduction
	The Problem of Agency
	The Agency of the Enslaved in Ancient Greece
		A Modern Comparandum
		Finding a New Master at a Temple
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Works Cited
8: Spoken from the Grave: The Construction of Social Identities on the Funerary Monuments of Metics in Classical Athens
	Preface
	Introduction
	Redefining the Athenian Master Narrative on Funerary Monuments
	Funerary Monuments and the Self-Representation of Metics
	The Funerary Monuments with ethnika
		The Dead
		Organization
		Monumental Form
		Iconography
		Inscriptions
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	Works Cited
9: Varying Statuses, Varying Rights: A Case Study of the graphē hubreōs
	Preface
	Introduction
	Access to Legal Rights and Protections
	The graphē hubreōs
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
10: Strategies of Disenfranchisement: ‘Citizen’ Women, Minor Heirs, and the Precarity of Status in Attic Oratory
	Preface
	Introduction
	The Family of Demosthenes
	Phylomachê
	Kallippê
	Philê (Kleitaretê) and her Mother
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
Index