Chapter 3 - Classical and Hellenistic Greece

fifth century BCE

Nicias, a wealthy Athenian in the , possessed a thousand slaves that he farmed out to a mining contractor for profit, but this is by far the biggest number reported.

415

In , several persons vandalized the Hermes sculptures that could be found on every street in Athens.

fifth century BCE

Nicias, a wealthy Athenian in the , possessed a thousand slaves that he farmed out to a mining contractor for profit, but this is by far the biggest number reported.

415

In , several persons vandalized the Hermes sculptures that could be found on every street in Athens.

Religion

was more of a civic than a private affair in Athens, as it was in the other Greek states.