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he has taught many people in Athens about logic, male and female rights, and many other topics. Through his tutelage and logic on issues throughout this year, we have defended the rights of the victims of the Thirty’s fear, provided for women and metics the ability to vote on this assembly, and constructed a sound curriculum for public school students. These things, which none can argue have hurt Athens but strengthened it, have all been influenced severely by Socrates and his pupils. Many of…

contrary, Athenian government had a way of looking after the people. According to a research, “Athenian government had various sources of revenues, including the mines as laurium, public lands, and taxes. Direct taxes on citizens were not the norm, but metics were taxed every year, as were imports/exports, prostitution, and the law courts brought in revenue from fines and confiscations”. Athenian had their way to give tax and participate in the…

The case Against Athenogenes was a dispute over an agreement for the sale of slaves. The individuals involved in the case are Epicrates, a citizen of Athens and Athenogenes, a metic from Egypt. Epicrates was the plantiff, he brought the case against Athenogenes, the defendant. This was a private suit covering the damages caused by Athenogenes in the agreement. A hetaira named Antigone helped complete the agreement between Epicrates and Athenogenes (5). Epicrates had an interest in one slave boy,…

wanted to free them. Slaves were freed by a declaration of the owner stating it was okay for the slave to become free. Once the slaves were freed, they were classed as freedmen, which had the same rights as foreigners or as the Greeks called them, metics. Sometimes slaves were freed to be put in the army or navy. Diet in Athens depended on social class, and what area of Greece they lived in.…

Greek Historical Context Essay By Joseph Foster Euripides’s the famous Greek Play-Writer wrote ‘Medea’ and this is what our Historical Context has been based around. Wrote roughly around the Year 431/432 BC the modern adaptation by Tom Paulin was made in 2010 and is the one we have been studying this term, which uses the power to make the audience question their emotions and morals. The Festival of…

Athens and Sparta are the two most well known poleis of ancient Greece and each was known for the structure of its society. In this essay I will discuss how people in those societies obtained the right to participate in public life and make community decisions, identify who held public office, and how public office holders were elected. How those two societies were similar and how they differed will also be discussed throughout this essay. Both Athens and Sparta had a societal structure based…

very different. Ancient Greece was the birthplace of democracy as in Roman was a republic government. Between each nation, both male children in their teens became citizens. Each country had slaves, freedmen, and citizens, although the Greeks had Metics and the Romans had Plebeians. The Greeks believed in meeting in a group and making decisions, whereas the Roman society, the aristocrats were known as patricians…

Running head: GOVERNMENTAL STRUCTURES OF ATHENS AND SPARTA 1 Comparing The Governmental Structures of Athens And Sparta During The Archaic And Classical Periods (ca 800-323BCE) Kwasi O. Angus University of The People GOVERNMENTAL…

pardons by their masters. Alongside the slaves were the Freedmen. These people were once slaves. They were extremely poor. Although they were considered to be in the same social standing as the slaves, they had more rights, though these were very few. Metics were considered to be the middle class citizens. They were not native to Athens and had few rights, but held more than the Freedmen. Often these people worked in trade or manufacturing businesses. Athenians were anyone born of Athenian…

Athens was famous for being the purest, most extreme form of democracy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. The constitution of Athens progressed in time moving from harsh laws, as written by Draco, to more lenient once. However, the Athenian Constitution was not written down on a piece of paper; according to Roderick T. Long it was ‘to speak of the way the Athenian policy was constituted, i.e., what the structure of the political system was.’ Yet despite this, The Athenian constitution has…