A slave was not free, that was why he/she was a slave - a chattel of his owner. Slaves were used as domestics, for agriculture, mining, tradesmen, factory workers, or any variety of other tasks. The Athenian state owned Scythians who doubled as police and horse archers.
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The name for a slave in ancient Sparta was "Helot", meaning "imperior" in Greek.
The slave was Aesop, who was credited as being the author of Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica.
A Greek Slave was created in 1898.
Ancient Greek rowing ships were called galleys.
χρυσαφένιος (chrysafenios) is the ancient greek word for Golden