A Metic was a Metic
Abstract
In Classical Athens, an immigrant who stayed longer than about a month was required
to register a citizen as prostates and to commence paying the metoikion. So were freed
slaves. A recent study treats these freeborn and freedman metics as distinct legal
types of resident alien. Athenian law did not.
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Joshua D. Sosin
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Pronouns: he/him.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 practitioners
would not fit neatly into the boxes that we use today.
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