Symposion 2019, pp. 419-436, 2021/12/15
Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Hamburg, 26.‒28. August 2019)
This article focuses on the legal forms organizing slave labour, and morespecifically on the leasing of slaves in classical Athens, whose scale has been largelyunder-estimated by historians. The recruitment of rented slaves primarily took placein a clearly defined location, the sanctuary of the Anakeion. Leasing slaves hadprobably been subjected to taxation, and there may have existed a procedure to settledisputes connected to this legal transaction. One may finally reconstitute the form ofsuch leasing-contracts by referring to a passage of Xenophon’s Poroi.
Keywords: labour, slavery, leasing, liability, contract
