“…The Greek world can therefore be envisaged as a patchwork of epichoric (i.e., local) slave systems, each differing from the next -some slightly, others profoundly, with Helotage (and its comparanda) differing so profoundly as to constitute something like a subcategory within the overall whole. on inter alia Ducat 1990Ducat , 1994Link 1994Link , 2001Luraghi , 2003Luraghi , 2009 On epichoric slavery, see also Vlassopoulos 2021: 166-175. Some, though, demur, and maintain that serfdom existed in Classical Greece.…”