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    The mines of Laurion (or Lavrion) are ancient mines located in southern Attica between Thoricus and Cape Sounion, approximately 50 kilometers south of...
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    Lavrio (redirect from Laurion)
    Ελλάδα". "Latest Conditions in Lavrio - Greece". Édouard Ardaillon, "Les Mines du Laurion dans l'antiquité", No. Ixxvii. of the Bibliothéque des Ecoles francaises...
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    Annales de Géographie 6(27): 255–257. 1898. Les mines du Laurion dans l’Antiquité (The Mines of Laurion in Antiquity) Thesis. 1901. "Les principes de la...
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    Consisting of twenty four copper based artifacts found not too far from the Laurion mines, it is very possible that several of these objects were produced locally...
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    can be found as early as the Classical era, used to grind ore in the Laurion mines, although it did not overtake the less efficient reciprocating millstone...
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    and Italy. In Greece it exploited the famous Laurion mines through a subsidiary, the Compagnie française du Laurium, from the 19th century until its closure...
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    according to their skills. Thus, while most of the slaves who worked in the Laurion mines, for example, were employed in less complex tasks, there were also slaves...
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  • examples, the favorite concubine of the master and the worker in the mines of the Laurion cannot have legitimate children. And, according to laws common to...
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