Slavery and Social Mobility in The Greek World, 800-350 BC

This project, the first ever sustained study of Greek slavery and social mobility, aims to fill a gap in the scholarship concerning the likelihood and scale of the phenomenon, as well as the factors that facilitated the social promotion and demotion of slaves. Such factors can be divided into institutional ones (i.e., the economy, military, public service), as well as personal ones (such as merit, advantage maximization, instrumental rationality, and even luck), both of which will be under discussion in this project.