Saturday, 5 December 2015

Slavery's impact on Athenian democracy in Classical Greece


When we use the term 'Athenian democracy', which is complex then it has to be caution making it's connection with the social struggle that was taking place. Aristotle himself mentioned that the independent choice of slavery and the slave's choice to depend on his or her master or become slave master in Greece was incredible or impalpable with self-dependence and social openness; these three tendencies clashed with each other which make the complexity of the slave order much decisive than we generally assume in context of the Classical Greece itself. However Mark Antony has to mention that 'slavery and it's institution' in the power of the Athenes helped it to create a democracy, because the effect of the thebesians, 'navy slaves' and their relation to the war ethology create a way forward for the formation into eh greek slavery, which was much better to understand in the possessiveness of the role of thebesians in the war and their utilisation by the Classical Greek social order itself. However the shift of tantrum in Athenian democracy is not made clear by mark antony. When he says 'slavery' and it's social ethnicity in classical Greece, he fails to justify that the social order has clear contrast with the position of the power and authority of the classical Athenian democracy, more to contrast his theory for the social application of the 'slaves' with their stratification build a contrast which finally only excibits the position of the slaves for the Athenian democracy, rather than explain the power through which the slaves were handled, so the pressure which Athenian democracy held for slaves was not so clear yet. Methews Holden and Andrew Slanies make two points very clear, when they mention the role of the Athenian democracy in slavery institution or the slavery's institution to form the democracy: they mention- 1. sightly to the fact, that popularity of the slaves, their relation to make evidence (thebes and Atlanca- Greece) help us to understand that the slaves in ancient Greece has separate treatments and their markets were on their basis to decide their infiltration for the society, the power to get over the responsibility and roling for the open slavery in Athens have way for preferential asistance. however 2. when the slaves were directly inassociated from their acting positions, after the Gathrolt's law of 'inter slave conectivity' in Athenian democracy, their actual participation and their value by the people owning them help in the power making of Athenes. In this way the 2nd fact presented by both historians make way clear that in what way the institutionalised slaver helped in the Athenian democracy and it's positioning itself was a systematised patatttern, which required force and management and once the power of the authority which recognised Athens as the major factor proved of it, we can assume what slavery ment with it's institution for the democracy in classical Athens itself.

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