families but also by various corporations, such as religious temples, voluntary associations, communities and municipalities, and even the state. The leisure the ancient Greeks exploited to create their greatly admired and imitated culture was made possible only by the labor of the enormous number of human beings they had enslaved, who bore the burden of the drudgery of daily life for everyone as well as produced a substantial surplus for commerce. Aristotle had defined a Greek slave as “a living
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