The Athens class (Upper Class)

The Athens were the highest class in the Ancient Greek Heirachy and they had the highest position in society and were the most powerful people. To be in the Upper class you must be born in Athens to have the highest position and power and the Athens class symbolised a highly socialised person, your taste for art must be exceptionally good and you must represent a civilised individual. People from this class handled all the governmental work such as the philosophy, the war and the literature work. The upper class had slaves to do their work so that they don't spend their precious time on materialistic work but on administrative work.

The Metics Class (Middle Class)

The metics class is the middle class and is the second highest in the Ancient Greek Hierachy system. The metics were not the natives of Athen as they came from different areas to relocate to Athen. These people had little rights compared to the Upper class but they still had more rights than the slaves and the lower class. The metics or middle class were mostly made out of craftsmans, merchants, tradesmen, managers, artist, manufacturers and many more.

FreedMen Class (Lower Class)

The freedmen or the lower class are the third most powerful people in the Ancient Greece Hierachy even though they weren't really a citizen and had liitle rights but these people or were once a slave themselves before they earned enough money to buy their freedom and become a freeman or any other way of how their owner releases them.

Slave Level

Slaves were so low that the Ancient Greeks never considered them as a class as they were considered a level, they were the most helpless of all. The slaves were people who were either rescued from the war, some could be criminals or even bought by other people. These people who were treated poorly possessed no rights or authority at all, In fact they did not even possess rights of their own life. There were very little number of Greeks slaves as the majority of the slaves were non-Greeks. As I mentioned before, these people had to pay a amount to buy their freedom to be free.

Womens Class

The women had three classes: the wives, the hetarae and the prostitute class.

The Wives: The wives were the class that only stayed at home and go to religious communions otherwise they were not allowed to go out of the house and there job was to do house chores and take care of the children.

The Hetarae: This class were much more educated than the wives class and was a mans companion such as social, intellectual or sexual if he paid the expensive price and would meet at parties or festivals.

The Prostitutes: The prostitutes were the sexual companion for a man and could roam around the society because they basically have no rules and were maintained by men, worked in brothels or on the street.

Bibliography

http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/ancientchix/

http://www.hierarchystructure.com/ancient-greek-social-hierarchy/

https://prezi.com/m/g6wejlmkzz5t/ancient-greeces-social-classes/

http://www.ancient.eu/article/483/