In ancient Greece, to be free meant first of all to be a citizen, that is, a participating member of the polis. This membership entailed certain powers, but freedom was not reducible to having these powers. Instead, they followed from freedom as its implication. In other words, freedom was an identity or a mode of being, an actuality, rather than a power or potency.

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