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How would you describe slavery in ancient Greece?

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Certainly it was not as enjoyable as freedom, but it was an alternative to death that some found preferable. Slavery was not practiced on a large scale in ancient Greece (except by those champions of freedom, the Spartans). The Romans were much more dependent on slave labor than the Greeks.

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