"Lower status" Quotes from Famous Books
... The great number of slaves and foreigners is clearly seen, even though the citizenship had by this time been greatly extended. In Sparta and in other City-States somewhat similar conditions prevailed as to numbers [7] but there the slaves (Helots) occupied a lower status than in Athens, being in reality serfs, tied to and being sold with the land, and having no rights which a citizen was bound ... — THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY |