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Citizenship
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What makes a citizen?
"a citizen pure and simple is defined by nothing else so much as by the right to participate in judicial functions and in office"
Aristotle, Politcs, 1275a
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therefore, metics were excluded from this definition
Physical Appearance of slaves, metics, citizens
slaves and metics dressed the same as citizens, so they were visually indistinguishable
Xenophon, Constitution of the Athenians, 1.10-11
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What could metics do, and not do?
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There was a sharp division in the legals sphere, but the boundary between metic and citizen was blurred socially