Lavrion Mines

(also Laurion, Laurium), mines in ancient Greece on Mount Lavrion (Attica), famous deposits of silverlead ores. First worked in remote antiquity, the mines became the property of Athens in the sixth century B.C. They were leased to private individuals for short terms. Part of the income went to the treasury and part was distributed among the fully enfranchised citizens of Athens. The exhausting labor was carried out by slaves, whose numbers reached 35,000 in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. There were uprisings of the slaves of the mines in the second and first centuries B.C. The Lavrion Mines were abandoned in the first century A.D. Mining was renewed only in 1873 and still continues.

REFERENCES

Drevniaia Gretsiia. Moscow, 1956. Pages 249–51.
Gluskina, L. M. Review of S. Lauffer, “Die Bergwerkssklaven von Laureion,” parts 1–2, 1955. Vestnik drevnei istorii, 1959, no. 3.

单词	lavrion mines
释义	Lavrion Mines Lavrion Mines (also Laurion, Laurium), mines in ancient Greece on Mount Lavrion (Attica), famous deposits of silverlead ores. First worked in remote antiquity, the mines became the property of Athens in the sixth century B.C. They were leased to private individuals for short terms. Part of the income went to the treasury and part was distributed among the fully enfranchised citizens of Athens. The exhausting labor was carried out by slaves, whose numbers reached 35,000 in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. There were uprisings of the slaves of the mines in the second and first centuries B.C. The Lavrion Mines were abandoned in the first century A.D. Mining was renewed only in 1873 and still continues. REFERENCES Drevniaia Gretsiia. Moscow, 1956. Pages 249–51. Gluskina, L. M. Review of S. Lauffer, “Die Bergwerkssklaven von Laureion,” parts 1–2, 1955. Vestnik drevnei istorii, 1959, no. 3.
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