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Slavery in Ancient Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5301 words) |
 | Finally, between 317 BCE and 307 BCE, the tyrant Demetrius Phalereus ordered (chronology of Ctesicles, preserved by Athenaeus, VI, 272c) a general census of Attica which arrived at the following figures: 21,000 citizens, 10,000 Metics and 400,000 slaves. |
| Likewise in 348 BCE the population of Olynthus was reduced to slavery, as was that of Thebes in 335 BCE by Alexander the Great, and that of Mantineia by the Achaean League. |
| It was the pollution of the shedding of blood that was the evil here; as such the suspect was judged by the Palladion (a court reserved for unintentional homicide cases), rather than the Areopagus, and the maximum punishment was exile, as for involuntary manslaughter. |
| The Significance of 70 Years (17768 words) |
| Even through Jehoiachin was not in office and was not transported to Babylon until the year 597-596 BCE (at the epoch of a 70th year--as cited) it may have been that the author of Ezekiel reckoned the year of Jehoiachin's captivity' as coinciding with the time of the initial Babylonian conquest of Judea. |
| This means that the occurrence of the nearest 7th year (according to 70-year chronology) could have begun in either the spring of the year 162 BCE (not in autumn of the year 163 BCE) or it could have began in the spring of the year 163 BCE (not the autumn of the year 163). |
| It is of special significance that the year 37 BCE (the year when King Herod ascended to the throne of Jerusalem) is indicated to have been the year of a conjunction of both cycles--of 70 years and of 49 years. |
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