Ancient Greece witnessed significant socio-political shifts from the Classical to the Roman period, shaping both regional history and societal dynamics in the populations. Despite the recently emerging view of low wealth inequality in democratic Athens, there remains a gap in understanding the impact of these changes during the Hellenistic and Roman periods and outside of Athens. Studying social dynamics, traditional approaches relying on archaeological and written sources have been acknowledged as biased, mainly reflecting the perspectives of adult male citizens. This leaves women and low-status groups invisible and their life experiences hard to study. Addressing these limitations, this project adopts a bioarchaeological perspective and focusses on populations from Laurion and San Giorgi Island. Through the innovative application of cross-sectional geometry to assess activity patterns and finegrained
isotopic analyses to reconstruct dietary practices, this projects provides a deeper understanding of the embodiment of social inequality in ancient Greece. The outcomes of this study will provide the unique possibility to have a direct insight into the lived experiences of social stratification. By creating a bridge between social and biological inequality, the research sheds light on social groups that have remained in the shadows of research.