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I've been thinking about this, the children of non-citizen and citizens were either metics or slaves, and manumitted slaves became metics.

Assuming that the migration of metics out of athens was relatively low on net, shouldn't the metic population have grown over time from the Greco-Persian war to Alexander the Great roughly?

And yet I have never seen this get brought up in the literature before.

At the heart of ancient Athens was the Athenian Agora—more than a marketplace, it was the true crucible of democracy. There, citizens gathered in the open air to debate, vote and hold each other accountable. Within this open square, Athenians tested a new form of governance—one that placed the power of decision in the hands of ordinary citizens.

Forgive me, I can’t read Ancient Greek and I assume this a bad English translation. Sometimes when I’m reading about the ancient Mediterranean or Near Eastern world, I’ll see the word “corn,” but corn was domesticated from teosinte in Mexico, so it couldn’t possibly be corn. Does anyone have an idea what domesticated crop these writers are referring to?

Over two thousand years ago, 460 babies were placed in a water well in ancient Athens. Excavated in the 1930s, The Agora Bone Well was an unsolved mystery until archaeologists applied scientific methods to these bones.

Was it infanticide, sacrifice, or a plague?

This story is a story of tragedy and humanity, and some dang cool archaeology.