Final Project

1. WOMEN SLAVES, AND METICS McCayla Torres Summer 2018 HIST-101-501

2. ■ The topic I chose for my final project is Women Slaves, and Metics. These are the groups that “made up the majority of Athen’s population, but they lacked political rights” (Hunt 90). This topic is about the roles that each of these groups played in their society. Each group held a different expectation from the society, and some had different levels of responsibilities: for example, the citizen women had different jobs compared to the poor women. This topic raises a lot of questioning from me. What roles did women, salves and metics play in this era?

3. ■ Thesis: Women, Metics and slaves were essentially “Property” to the higher class. ■ Women, Slaves and Metics had no rights https://www.haikudeck.com/slavery-in- athens-and-sparta-education-presentation- 4H72BnF7ge#slide2

4. ■ Author : The British Museum ■ Link: http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/staff/resource s/background/bg18/home.html ■ Summary:This article introduces the different positons each group played in society. It breaks it down by religion, legal, political, and economic to show what they were capable of. It presents the differences in what women, slaves and Metics were allowed to do.

5. ■ Quote:” Women could not achieve political rights, although metics (resident foreigners) and even slaves could.” ■ Evaluation: This source is credible because it was written by The British Museum which is made up of “The Museum is governed by a board of 25 trustees in accordance with the British Museum Act of 1963 and the Museums and Galleries Act of 1992.”

6. ■ Author:K. Kapparis ■ Link: http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/article _women_and_family?section=metics ■ Summary: This article talks about citizenship between the people. It brings up the topic of marriage and how that would affect their life. This one goes more in depth of how they were owned, rather than had their own life.

7. ■ Quote:” The large slave population of Attica was mostly under private ownership, except for a small number of public slaves (demosioi).” ■ Evaluation: This is a credible source due to the fact that the author is a university of Florida, Classics, Faculty member. He has published two books relating to Greek mythology.

8. ■ Author: Nathan Smith ■ Link: https://openborders.info/blog/metics- in-ancient-greece/ ■ Summary: Nathan goes very into detail about the roles that the Metics and slaves played. He explains their penalties if they did not obey the law and didn’t do to what they were known for. He brings up the economic status of each one. He mostly speaks about the Metics, and their role.

9. ■ Quote:” Metics held lower social status but not on the basis of socio-economic class” ■ Evaluation: This source’s credibility from his background. He is an assistant professor of economics at Fresno Pacific University. He also has a Ph.D. in economics.

10. ■ Author: Mark Cartwright ■ Link: https://www.ancient.eu/article/927/women-in- ancient-greece/ ■ Summary: This article focuses mainly on the Women of Ancient Greece. It explains the differences between them, and other citizens at the time. It brings up their roles, and what they were allowed to do. It also brings up the different age groups, from young to old and their roles as they age.

11. ■ Quote: “Unable to vote, own land, or inherit, a woman’s place was in the home and her purpose in life was the rearing of children.” ■ Evalution: I found this source to be credible because the author is in Italy and writes about history. He has a masters in Political Philosophy and is a Publishing director at AHE.

12. ■ Author: Cristian Violatti ■ Link: http://listverse.com/2016/09/29/10-fascinating-facts-about-slavery-in-ancient- greece/ Summary: This article focuses on the salves and their roles. There are ten facts about the slaves, from occupations to ownership. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Léon_Gérôme_- _Slave_Market_in_Rome_-_WGA8652.jpg

13. ■ Quote: “ ■ “The most unfortunate were the slaves involved in mining, who were condemned to a miserable life and almost certainly an early death. ” ■ “However, not all slaves were doomed to suffer cruelty and abuse, and some could expect a more or less decent living. Slaves specialized as craftsmen, for example, could work and live separately from their masters and could engage in commerce and generate income, though a portion of what they earned had to go to their masters’ pockets.” ■ Evaluation: This source is credible because the author is an editor of Ancient History Encyclopedia. He is also studying archaeology at Leicester.

14. ■ Conclusion ■ To conclude, Women, slaves and Metics roles were tending to the higher class. ■ They had to do things to please them, such as, becoming sex slaves, or doing hard labor. ■ Women were forced to focus on family and not work, and if they did work they did not make money. ■ They had to listen to those higher than them in order to survive.

15. ■ Works Cited ■ Cartwright, Mark. “Women in Ancient Greece.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, https://www.ancient.eu/article/927/women-in- ancient-greece/ K. Kapparis, “Women and Family in Athenian Law,” in Adriaan Lanni, ed., “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context” (Center for Hellenic Studies On-line Discussion Series). Republished in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities[www.stoa.org]) edition of March 22, 2003. Smith, Nathan. “Metics in Ancient Greece.” Open borders, https://openborders.info/blog/metics-in-ancient-greece/ Violatti, Cristian. “10 Fascinating Facts About Slavery In Ancient Greece.” Listverse, http://listverse.com/2016/09/29/10-fascinating-facts-about- slavery-in-ancient-greece/ “Women, Children and Slaves.” The Britsh Museum,http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/staff/resources/backgrou nd/bg18/home.html. ■ ■ ■ ■