The top class in Ancient Greek Society is the Upper class. People in the upper class had to be born in Athens and had the utmost power and importance. People from this clas handled all the government work, philosophy, literature and war. These people had the most slaves to save time for their precious administrative purposes. Although it seems they worked hard they were also known as the Leisure Class.

Metics-(middle class). The next class in Ancient Greek Hierarchy is the metics. These people were not born in Athens but some came to Athens to settle. They mostly had to work hard for their livelihoods and were mostly involved in trading and manufacturing. These were not freed men/women and possessed little or no rights.

The next Class is the freedmen or Lower class. These were once slaves that had been freed or paid their ransom. They possessed the least amount of rights and were never given citizenship no matter how much money they came into possession of.

The last class, well it was so low that Ancient Greek people didn't consider them a class, more of a level. These were slaves with no rights. They often were from other countries or were captured during wars. It was very rare that a Greek man was a slave. To become a freedman they had to pay a very large ransom.

Social Classes in Sparta: Helots were the main population in ancient Sparta. They were either freedmen or slaves and they greatly outnumbered Spartans. The Spartans, not wishing to have another slave revolt treated them with no respect and they we're whipped often. Every year the Spartans would declare war with the Helots so they could kill them without repercussions. Eventually the helots would get their freedom after the Peloponnesian wars when the Spartan state was greatly weakened.

Mothax: Mothakes were normally the offspring of a Spartiate men and helot mothers. Although they were not allowed to join in the average civilian life they were allowed to fight alongside perioeci.

The Neodamodes were helots that had passed their time in the Spartan army. Although of higher status than normal helots they were never given full citizenship.

Perioeci were a group of free people located in the highland and coastal areas. Unlike Spartans they were allowed to travel between cities but Spartans had to ask permission.