![]() By contrast, democratie Athens is the best example of societies with a few, sharply delineated statuses-adult male citizens, resident foreigners (metics, among whom are included freedmen), and chattel slaves. Some degree of movement between the grades is observable. ![]() Sparta and the Cretan cities are the clearest examples. Instead of clearly defined categories, the resuit was a continuous spectrum ranging from full, adult male members of the community (among whom there were further distinctions of property and genealogy) through serf-like statuses to chattel slaves. The older and perhaps at one time universal type consisted of a series of gradations socially, juridically, politically, from persons with the most complete power and privilege to those with the least. Saller, New York, Viking P (.)ġThe exploitation of persons of subordinate status took two contrasting forms in Greece, as we have come to understand especially from Moses Finley and Yvon Garlan 1. 1 Moses Finley, Economy and Society in Ancient Greece, ed.
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