Craftsmen
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
carpenters · cobblers · craftsmen · architect · demiourgoi · doctor · physicians · smiths · statuaries
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
One of the citizen classes set apart by Theseus and later described as one of the two broad divisions of the Athenian multitude, valued for numerical strength.
In old times the multitude of the Athenians, before Cleisthenes arranged the matters concerning the tribes, was divided into farmers and craftsmen.
Aristotle says that, the whole multitude at Athens being divided into farmers and craftsmen, their tribes were four, and of each of the tribes there were three parts, which they call thirds and brotherhoods, and of each of these there were thirty clans, and each clan was composed of thirty men.
rather he was the first to set apart separately the eupatrids and the farmers and the craftsmen, and assigning to the eupatrids the knowledge of divine things and the providing of the magistrates and the being teachers of the laws and expounders of sacred and holy things, he established the other citizens, as it were, on an equal footing—the eupatrids being thought to excel in reputation, the farm …
Alcibiades 2
Skilled tradesmen cited as an analogy for how one general category contains many specialized forms.
yet they are not all carpenters or cobblers or statuaries, though these taken together are craftsmen.
Memorabilia
Manual and technical specialists used in Socratic analogies about teachable knowledge and works.
And have just men, like carpenters, their works?
To ignorance of the smiths’ trade, shall we say?
Men of Athens, I have never yet studied medicine, nor sought to find a teacher among our physicians;