02-11-2010, 05:18 AM
Sean wrote:
Quote:I think he would have called a subject of Khufu a doulos, but if pressed would have agreed that he didn't mean a doulos in precisely the same sense as a worker in an Attic silver mine or a Hellene in a city controlled by foreigners.....indeed, as I mentioned earlier in the thread there were many degrees/types of ( and words for) 'slave' in Ancient Greece - and the ancient world generally for that matter....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
