Word: athenians
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...plot begins when Timon, a wealthy Athenian merchant, spreads his seemingly limitless riches among his friends and lavishes penniless Athenian artists with his patronage. He has no ulterior motive: he is simply a kind and generous soul who lives, unconsciously, far beyond his considerable means. His life becomes full of complication once the steward Flavius reveals that Timon's estate is mortgaged to the hilt. As the news leaks out, creditors begin to hound the generous merchant. Timon is forced to appeal to his friends, who, predictably, refuse...
...European peoples as lying outside the social contract and therefore beyond the protection of the web of individual rights they were weaving for themselves. As long as some group is regarded as outsiders then freedom for insiders is perfectly compatible with enslavement and exploitation ? as indeed happened in the Athenian city state. The greater the degree of freedom for insiders, the more onerous is slavery likely to be for outsiders...