Slavery in Ancient Greece

The liberal democracies of the West have always looked to Ancient Greece as the cradle of many cherished ideas and ideals, so it often seems like a contradiction to modern students that Greece was also a slave-owning society. But in fact, whether it's the militarism of Sparta or the democracy of Athens, we'll see that the development of Greek culture and their self-image was tightly linked to the dichotomy of liberty and slavery. By exploring both the ancient sources and modern scholarship, this video hopes to serve as a nearly comprehensive examination of the many aspects of slavery in the ancient world.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:00 Democracy and Slavery
0:10:07 Where Slaves were Employed
0:16:05 Slavery by the Numbers
0:18:43 Construction & Mining
0:19:42 Sources of Slaves
0:22:24 The Scythian Archers
0:24:04 Justice & Law
0:27:03 Freedom & Citizenship
0:31:18 The Ideology of Slave Societies
0:34:17 The Language of Slavery
0:36:02 Pseudoscience and Slavery
0:37:01 What did Aristotle think?
0:40:11 Sophist, Stoic, and Cynic Perspectives
0:42:21 What did Aristotle actually think?
1:00:13 Slavery in Sparta
1:09:21 Outro