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3rd February 2017, 02:14 PM
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Metics

HI I am interested in having the information about what Metics are as well as the information about Metics in Classical Athens?
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3rd February 2017, 02:26 PM
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Re: Metics

In ancient Greece, particularly in Classical Athens, the term metic (Greek Metoikos) implied foreigner, inhabitant outsider, a man who did not have resident rights in
their Greek city-state (polis) of home - including liberated slaves (like somewhere close to a guest and citizen)[1]. Metics were found in many states, barring Sparta,
normally as traders, slaves, and craftsmen. They were a noteworthy wellspring of labor and talented work.

The Metic was spoken to under the steady gaze of the Athenian law by his prostates (benefactor). They were a perceived part of the group and uncommonly secured by law,
albeit subject to confinements on marriage and property possession. The known legitimate term of metic in Classical Athens, ought not be connected to Archaic and
Hellenistic Athens (See Metic)

They were a perceived part of the group and exceptionally ensured by law, albeit confined in marriage and property proprietorship.

Metics were non-Athenians who for the most part found the cosmopolitan city of Athens more engaging than their own particular countries. Metics couldn't claim
property, which was devastating in Athenian culture, however they could hold employments for property proprietors and they had to pay an expense.

Servitude was a vital establishment in Athenian culture. Slaves were the property of their proprietors and could be purchased and sold whenever. They held no
enforceable lawful rights and had no citizenship rights. Slaves had an assortment of occupations, from working inside the home to working in the fields to going about
as specialists – really, a few slaves turned out to be very near their proprietors and their families and were all around adored.

Metics in Classical Athens

The majority of this article relates to Athens in the fifth and fourth hundreds of years BC amid the Athenian vote based system, which urged outsiders to settle in
Athens, by virtue of the part which they took in exchange, industry, instruction, workmanship and of which period we have essential sources about the particular
legitimate status of a Metic, as detailed by the Attic speakers. Be that as it may, the historical backdrop of outside movement to Athens starts prior with Solon, who
is said to have offered Athenian citizenship[2][3] to nonnatives who might migrate to his city to hone a specialty; without a doubt, in the time of Solon, Attic
stoneware prospered. In other Greek urban communities (poleis), outside inhabitants were few, except for cosmopolitan Corinth


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