metic

The owner could also be a male or female Metic.

Due to these complications, the legal term metic is most closely associated with Classical Athens.

The metic did not have the same citizen rights as a citizen who was born in the state he was living in.

The term 'metic' was especially used in ancient Athens in the 4th and 5th centuries BC.

As citizenship was a matter of inheritance and not of place of birth, a metic could be either an immigrant or the descendant of one.

The strong influence of red-figure Attic vase painting has convinced some experts that the artist who decorated the tomb was a Greek metic.

A notable metic was Aristotle, who was born in Stageira but lived in Athens for a long time.

During the Athenian political upheaval in the late 5th century, Polemarchus was singled out by the Thirty Tyrants for being a wealthy metic.

According to Nicole Loraux, who compares Athens and Paris, it was probably better to be an Athenian Metic, than an immigrant in 1990s France.

Accusations of Genocide Mr. Metic and Mr. Boyle were among lawyers arguing an unusual case before the World Court, which is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

Any citizen, be he Macedonian, Greek, Jew, Metic, or hybrid Egyptian, will be permitted to stand, and laws will be enacted to punish electoral bribery, as well as corruption while in office.

After many adventures in the strange lands of Rith Metic, the Illumi Nation, and the Soup Sea, Pompadore and Kabumpo arrive in the Emerald City to find Ozma missing.

Just then I saw a metic's son I knew by sight, and gave him something to take Phoenix home for me; for people were gathering to stare at him, as they do if you lead a good horse in the City.

In ancient Greece, the term metic (Greek métoikos: from metá, indicating change, and oîkos "dwelling") referred to a foreign resident of Athens, one who did not have citizen rights in his or her Greek city-state (polis) of residence.

The program, which blends entrepreneurship and philanthropy with more prosaic classroom studies for students 8 to 14 years old, was developed by Barbara G. Weiland, a teacher who set out to demonstrate that children can learn reading, arith metic and language skills while having fun.

The term Metic began to lose its distinctive legal status in 4th century BC, when metics were allowed to act in the court without a Prostates (patron) and came to an end in Hellenistic Athens, when the purchase of citizenship became very frequent.

In the 4th century BC, the suspect was judged by the Palladion, a court which had jurisdiction over unintentional homicide; the imposed penalty seems to have been more than a fine but less than death-maybe exile, as was the case in the murder of a Metic.