The Ancient Greek Economy 2015
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781139565530.015
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The Market for Slaves in the Fifth- and Fourth-Century Aegean

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“…Lewis (2016), in his enquiry into Gordion’s consumers of Greek goods, put forth the idea that slaves would have been highly desirable Phrygian exports to the Aegean, and Osborne (1996, 39) regarded the slave trade as more valuable than pots. The flow of slaves from Asia Minor, and especially from Phrygia, to the Aegean world is supported by evidence from ancient sources, notably inscriptions that bear local Anatolian personal names from as early as the sixth century BC (Lewis 2016, 320–1), and what may be a coffle pictured on a grave stela from the Bilecik region (Erpehlivan 2021a). Other than the slave trade, there is little evidence for alternative exports, except for the salted fish from Hellespontine Phrygia mentioned by Hermippus (fr.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Lewis (2016), in his enquiry into Gordion’s consumers of Greek goods, put forth the idea that slaves would have been highly desirable Phrygian exports to the Aegean, and Osborne (1996, 39) regarded the slave trade as more valuable than pots. The flow of slaves from Asia Minor, and especially from Phrygia, to the Aegean world is supported by evidence from ancient sources, notably inscriptions that bear local Anatolian personal names from as early as the sixth century BC (Lewis 2016, 320–1), and what may be a coffle pictured on a grave stela from the Bilecik region (Erpehlivan 2021a). Other than the slave trade, there is little evidence for alternative exports, except for the salted fish from Hellespontine Phrygia mentioned by Hermippus (fr.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thucydides (8.40.2) writes that fifth century Chios had more slaves than any other Greek city, except for Sparta, but gives no figures. Large numbers of male slaves were occupied in the Athenian silver mines, probably between 10,000 and 35,000 (Lewis, 2016;Osborne, 1995). Inevitably, such numbers of male slaves skewed the sex ratio of the slave population and diminished its reproduction potential.…”
Section: Athenian Chattel Slavesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the Classical world enslaved people were chattel property, they could be bought, sold, and worked as their private owners saw fit. Capturing, moving, and selling people from the periphery to the core was a commercial business (Lewis 2016) and slaves were a world-system good. Total numbers of slaves may never be known, but here is a small sampling of authoritative observations and estimates: 'we are entirely in the dark' and 'every polis had plenty' (Hansen 2006: 109); a third (Wood 1988: 42ff.…”
Section: Why the Differences?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the mines hard slave labor provided the silver that Athens used to make its money, literally. Slaves -perhaps 10,000 to 35,000 -worked in the silver mines of Laurion in Attika (Davis 2008;Lewis 2016). Slaves (helots) were used on polyculture farms in Sparta, where the economy was more agricultural and less committed to international commerce (Lewis 2016).…”
Section: Why the Differences?mentioning
confidence: 99%
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