Greek literature focused mainly on mythology, science, math, and philosophy. Many famous philosophical stories came from the Greeks and Romans. For example plato and Socrates. There was also a lot of important scientific discovery’s in that time! Such as Aristotle who founded zoology!
So most of Greek literature was focused on three things, education, religion, and philosophy.
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They had no education and could not read or write as a result of the Slave Codes.
Job opportunities were extremely limited.
Often the only skills a freed slave had was in farming and even then they usually only knew how to do the manual labor, not the actual running of a farm.
Freed slaves had no money, clothing, etc.