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Homer demonstrates plainly that the Greek warriors liked to sack a town and take women to be sex slaves or servants. Slavery was acceptable, and slavery meant that you must do what is requested. Slave owners had life and death control over their slaves. A slave owner could not deal with an aggressive slave so that person would be killed. Slaves tended to be pretty passive and obedient.
Homelessness was a very uncommon state in ancient Greece. Unfortunately homeless people were commonly caught into slavery. If they were useful then they were sold. If they were useless they were then killed or allowed to die. The family was more important in those days. If your family could not protect you and care for you when you were down and out, then you ended up as a slave. The good thing about slavery is that whoever bought you included you in their family. The bad thing was that you were then forced to do drudgery and if you did not work you were killed or left to die. Sex crimes could easily be perpetrated on a slave.
If your family was poor you could be sold into slavery to help pay off their debts.
The Greeks had marble quarries and silver mines. In other parts of the world there were copper, lead, gold, tin, iron, and mines for precious and semi-precious stone. Slaves did almost everything except smelting. They did the dangerous job of going into the earth to bring the ore to the surface. They also did the heavy work of removing the earth to expose the ore. They wielded the pick and the hammers to drive the drills. Very dry sticks were pounded into the holes so when water was applied they swelled and broke the rock. The large rocks were broken with picks and hammers and chisels. The burden and ore was removed from the mines in sacks on the back of slaves. Slaves had to constantly sharpen the tools to work the rock. Men and women might be used in the mine. Women also may have served as prostitutes as well as cooking and serving food and water.
Minoan girl auction as a Slave in Mycenaean Greece.
Question: Did women own slaves and how often did the men and women have sex and could the men have sex with more thatn on e woman at one time??
Answer: Women did not own anything let alone slaves. Mainly men had sex with their wives. Since the wives controlled the women slaves the men had less sex with the slaves than they wanted. They could have sex with another man's slave set up as a prostitute, but they had to pay for it. They could have sex with more than one woman. There were hetaerae who might give them favors, but they might have to earn them.
Question: Did menh just go arondlaying other mens slaves cause that what you make it sound like
Answer: No. It was a crime to have sex with another man's slaves unless that man set the slaves up as prostitutes. And normally the female slaves were under the control of the man's wife and she would not let them have sex with anyone. Only the men who were not yet married could have a slave they could have sex with. But the ones he wanted to have sex with were very valuable as hetaerae and prostitutes, so unless he was very rich, he did not have sex with them either.
Question: Did women slaves have any right as how to they were treated sexually.
Answer: No. But a pregnant slave could do no work. It seems unlikely that the value of any baby produced would exceed the cost of the loss of work in ancient times. The result is that slave owners tried to keep the slaves from getting pregnant.
Question: How passionate was the sex in those days?
Answer: Extremely passionate. The ancient Greeks were extremely passionate people.
Question: why did they have slaves
Answer: Slavery allowed the labor of one person to benefit another. When you bought a slave you did not have to pay a wage to the slave but you could make the slave work for you. Even though you had to feed the slave to keep him working you were not responsible for the slave. If you did not feed the slave and he died it was not your responsibility. If the slave did not work you could beat him. If he died it was not your responsibility. In the Mycenaean culture most of the slaves were women. These slaves were made to spin and weave so the Mycenaeans could have cloth to trade with. In Classical times many slaves were household servants. Other slaves did mining and other dangerous tasks. Smiths had trained slaves to help them. Hetaerai and other trained slaves could often buy their freedom.
Question: Feelings of woman slave, especially in Homeric times
Answer: Most of the comments in Homer and elsewhere indicate that being a slave was not a happy thing. Breisis, Andromache, and many of the other Trojan women make statements to this effect.
Question: How wer they enslaved?
Answer: Several ways.
Question: were female slaves just raped or did they consent in sex with their masters
Answer: Females slaves had to consent to sex, but they rarely had sex with their male masters. A pregnant slave was a liability to a master so slaves were often denied sex. Normally female slaves were under the control of the wife. Sometimes a master would force a female slave into sex for sale. The slave had no choice in the matter.
Question: Slave markets. Were women sold naked?
Answer: Probably. Only trusted slaves got to wear clothes.
Question: How was the slavery in ancient greece?
Answer: Pretty rough, but not as bad as elsewhere.
Question: Were women slaves or just had limited rights just like the slaves?
Answer: Women were not slaves. But they had no rights either. The ancient Greeks invented rights but only gave them to citizen men. Women lived in a separate world from the men most of the time. In that world there was a heiarchy by status in the family with slaves at the bottom. The highest status woman was the wife of the owner of the property. Then there were the wives of the sons them the daughters then any other relatives, then the female slaves. Most women had to answer to another woman. Only wives answered to their husbands. Some households involved numerous people in this way. In some households only the wife and daughters were involved. To have a woman live alone was rare but hetarae did it. In those households there were only the hetarae and their slaves.
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