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Hesiod:
Works and Days, c. 750 BC

First of all, get a house, and a woman and an ox for the plough--a slave woman and not a wife, to follow the oxen as well--and make everything ready at home, so that you may not have to ask of another, and he refuse you, and so, because you are in lack, the season pass by and your work come to nothing.

Strabo:
Geographia circa 550 BCE

And the temple of Aphrodite [at Corinth] was so rich that it owned more than a thousand temples
Slaves---prostitutes---whom both free men and women had dedicated to the goddess. And therefore it was also on account of these temple-prostitutes that the city was crowded with people and grew rich; for instance, the ship captains freely squandered their money, and hence the proverb, "Not for every man is the voyage to Corinth."
Antiphon:
On the Choreutes, c. 430 BCE

So powerful is the compulsion of the law, that even if a man slays one who is his own chattel [i.e., his slave] and......

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