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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: spectrum of statuses -- Chattel slaves -- Privileged chattel slaves -- Freedmen with conditional freedom -- Metics (metoikoi) -- Privileged metics -- Bastards (nothoi) -- Disenfranchised citizens (atimoi) -- Naturalized citizens -- Full citizens: female -- Full citizens: male -- Conclusion: status in ideology and practice. |
| Summary |
Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays out the evidence for a much broader and more complex spectrum of statuses, one that has important implications for understanding Greek social and cultural history. By revealing a social and legal reality otherwise masked by Athenian ideology, Deborah. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Athens (Greece) -- Social conditions.
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Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
| Subject |
Social status -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Social status. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kamen, Deborah. Status in classical Athens. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013 9780691138138 (DLC) 2012040983 (OCoLC)815873361 |
| ISBN |
9781400846535 (electronic book) |
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1400846536 (electronic book) |
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1299606873 (electronic book) |
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9781299606876 (electronic book) |
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9780691138138 |
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0691138133 |
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