Hesiod: Works and Days, c. 750 BC First of all get a house, a woman and an ox for the plow - a slave and not a wife, who also follows the oxen - and prepare everything at home, so that you don't have to worry ask someone else, and he rejects you, and so, because you are deficient, the season passes and your work comes to nothing. Strabo: Geographia circa 550 BC And the temple of Aphrodite [in Corinth] was so rich that it possessed more than a thousand temples of slaves, of prostitutes, which free men and women had consecrated to the goddess. And therefore also because of these temple prostitutes the city was populated and enriched; for example, ship captains freely squandered their money, hence the proverb, "The voyage to Corinth is not for everyone." Antiphon: On the Choreutes, c. 430 BC So powerful is the compulsion of the law, that even if a man kill someone who is his own property [i.e., his slave] and who has no one to avenge him, his fear of the ordinances of God and man makes him he induces himself to purify himself and abstains from the places prescribed by law, in the hope that by doing so he will best avoid disaster. Demosthenes: Against Timocrates. C. 350 BC If, gentlemen of the jury, you will ask yourselves what the difference is between being a slave and being a free man, you will discover that the greatest difference is that the slave's body is made responsible for all his misdeeds, while corporal punishment is the ultimate punishment to be inflicted on a free man. Aristotle: Politics --- On Slavery, c. 330 BC Let's first talk about master and slave, looking at the needs of practical life and also trying to obtain a better theory of their relationship than the current one. Property is a part of the house, and the art of acquiring property is a part of the art of managing the house; for no man can live well, or even live, unless he is provided with the necessities. And so, in the order of the family, the slave is a living good and a property of such instruments; and the slave himself is a tool that takes precedence over all other tools. The master is only the master of the slave; it does not belong to him, while the slave is not only the slave of his master, but belongs to him entirely.