Class Struggle In the Ancient Greek World : G.M.E de Ste Croix : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Class Struggle In the Ancient Greek World : G.M.E de Ste Croix : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Greeks also saw work as a curse. The Greek god of hard labor was Ponos, taken from the Latin poena for sorrow. Manual labor was for slaves, and hard work was looked down upon. Plato and Aristotle believed work was for the majority so that the elite might “engage in pure exercises of the mind—art, philosophy, and politics.”
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And in the ‘Oriental* parts, newly brought within the great Hellenistic kingdoms, the clear-cut difference between ‘Hellene’ and ‘barbaros’ (Greek and native) gradu* ally became transformed into a more purely class distinction, between the propertied and non-propertied.
Class Struggle In the Ancient Greek World : G.M.E de Ste Croix : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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