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Thucydides, The History Of The Peloponnesian War, 7.27.5

τῆς τε γὰρ χώρας ἁπάσης ἐστέρηντο, καὶ ἀνδραπόδων πλέον ἢ δύο μυριάδες ηὐτομολήκεσαν, καὶ τούτων τὸ πολὺ μέρος χειροτέχναι, πρόβατά τε πάντα ἀπωλώλει καὶ ὑποζύγια: ἵπποι τε, ὁσημέραι ἐξελαυνόντων τῶν ἱππέων πρός τε τὴν Δεκέλειαν καταδρομὰς ποιουμένων καὶ κατὰ τὴν χώραν φυλασσόντων, οἱ μὲν ἀπεχωλοῦντο ἐν γῇ ἀποκρότῳ τε καὶ ξυνεχῶς ταλαιπωροῦντες, οἱ δ’ ἐτιτρώσκοντο. They were deprived of their whole country: more than twenty thousand slaves had deserted, a great part of them artisans, and all their sheep and beasts of burden were lost; and as the cavalry rode out daily upon excursions to Decelea and to guard the country, their horses were either lamed by being constantly worked upon rocky ground, or wounded by the enemy.

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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.73, 5.32.1, 5.116.4, 8.40.2 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 5.32.1. About the same time in this summer Athens succeeded in reducing Scione, put the adult males to death, and making slaves of the women and children, gave the land for the Plataeans to live in. She also brought back the Delians to Delos, moved by her misfortunes in the field and by the commands of the god at Delphi . 5.116.4. who put to death all the grown men whom they took, and sold the women and children for slaves, and subsequently sent out five hundred colonists and inhabited the place themselves. 8.40.2. There were more slaves at Chios than in any one other city except Lacedaemon, and being also by reason of their numbers punished more rigorously when they offended, most of them when they saw the Athenian armament firmly established in the island with a fortified position, immediately deserted to the enemy, and through their knowledge of the country did the greatest mischief.

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subject	book bibliographic info
agency	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
approaches,static	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
argos	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
athens	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
cavalry,prosopography	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 960
change	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
chios	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
corcyra	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
excavation,illegal	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 960
helots	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
hykkara	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
manes	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
manumission	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
melos	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
mercenaries	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 960
name,programmatic	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 960
oligarchy,the four hundred	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 960
peloponnesian war	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
phrygia	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
punishment	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
skione	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
slave-making	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192
slaves'	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 960
sparta	Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 192