I didn't say that slaves could own slaves. I said that they had a pecking order within their ranks. What I mean is that in a given household there might be 6 slaves, for example, or 16 slaves, and there would be an order of seniority and authority among those 6 or 16 slaves as to who got to boss who around. Someone would be top slave on the totem pole. This has always tended to happen in societies which had slavery.

And I said that a former slave, now a freed man, could own slaves if he rose high enough and had the money to buy them. It probably didn't happen much, but I bet it happened on a few occasions.

I'm talking about ancient Greece and Rome here, okay? I think it was much the same in Egypt, Babylon, and other large societies of that time.