“Those who live apart” were Mercenaries
Abstract
Since antiquity, scholars have thought that the phrase τοὺς χωρὶς οἰκοῦντας (Dem.
4.36) indicated a special class of slaves, or freedmen, or (Kazakévich) an unspecified
form of free alien. The argument advanced in Dem. 4, this paper suggests, shows that
the individuals who lived apart, were mercenaries.
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Joshua D. Sosin
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
One of the things that I like best about Classics is the wide range of intellectual
opportunities it offers. As an undergraduate I was interested in early Christianity
and Latin love elegy, which are about as far from my current work as you can get!
But our discipline is built for roaming and many of its earliest greats would not
fit neatly into the boxes that we use today.
My current scholarship bulks in
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