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1) Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World edited by Claire Taylor, Kostas Vlassopoulos
"A large majority of these slaves seem to have been imported from non-Greek societies, from a wide variety of different places, with many coming from Thrace and the coast of Asia Minor. As a result of this use of imported slaves, if you count people, consider their place of birth and their native languages, Athens was a radically multicultural society."
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2) Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity By Sarah Pomeroy
"However, since the chief requirement of the citizenship law had been Athenian parentage on both sides, and citizenship had not been predicated on actual marriage, the relaxation of this law may imply that foreign women were now permitted to be mothers of Athenian citizens. ... Some Athenian men may well have preferred foreign women to Athenians."
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3) Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture By Jonathan M. Hall, Professor of Ancient Greek History
"Apart from the metics, however, Athens had a large slave population - estimates vary between 20,000 and 150,000 - and since the overwhelming majority of slaves were non-Greek it is easy to understand why a derogatory attitude towards 'barbarians' could have taken root in Athens."
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Quotes from A History of Boeotia, By Robert J. Buck
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- Invasions & expulsions by fierce attackers, variously named Phlegyians, Pelasgi, or Thracians. Phlegyians were held to be of Thracian stock, while Thracians a Pelasgian people.
- Presence in Classical Greece of Thracian cults, divinities, or Thracian traces in various cults, in Boeotia and Arcadia.
- Thracian place-names, notably in Malis, Attica, Euboea and Arcadia --> simple explanation: presence of Thracians in these regions.
- Memory survived of fights with invading Thracians, fights in Phocis, Boeotia, western Attica and Megara at times close to the Trojan War.
- Thracians were believed to have maintained their grip for a time in Phocis and western Boeotia.
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1) Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World edited by Claire Taylor, Kostas Vlassopoulos
"A large majority of these slaves seem to have been imported from non-Greek societies, from a wide variety of different places, with many coming from Thrace and the coast of Asia Minor. As a result of this use of imported slaves, if you count people, consider their place of birth and their native languages, Athens was a radically multicultural society."
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2) Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity By Sarah Pomeroy
"However, since the chief requirement of the citizenship law had been Athenian parentage on both sides, and citizenship had not been predicated on actual marriage, the relaxation of this law may imply that foreign women were now permitted to be mothers of Athenian citizens. ... Some Athenian men may well have preferred foreign women to Athenians."
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3) Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture By Jonathan M. Hall, Professor of Ancient Greek History
"Apart from the metics, however, Athens had a large slave population - estimates vary between 20,000 and 150,000 - and since the overwhelming majority of slaves were non-Greek it is easy to understand why a derogatory attitude towards 'barbarians' could have taken root in Athens."
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Quotes from A History of Boeotia, By Robert J. Buck
Summary:
- Invasions & expulsions by fierce attackers, variously named Phlegyians, Pelasgi, or Thracians. Phlegyians were held to be of Thracian stock, while Thracians a Pelasgian people.
- Presence in Classical Greece of Thracian cults, divinities, or Thracian traces in various cults, in Boeotia and Arcadia.
- Thracian place-names, notably in Malis, Attica, Euboea and Arcadia --> simple explanation: presence of Thracians in these regions.
- Memory survived of fights with invading Thracians, fights in Phocis, Boeotia, western Attica and Megara at times close to the Trojan War.
- Thracians were believed to have maintained their grip for a time in Phocis and western Boeotia.
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