Monday, November 17, 2008

What did daily life look like in Ancient Greece?

Most Grees lived in rocky, mountainous lands surrounded by water. Mountains cover much of Greeks, there are few flat areas that's for farmland. They lived in villages and towns that are separated by seas and mountains. To travel across the mountains and seas was really difficult, so communities were kind of isolated and separated from each other. People create their own governments and ways of life, although they speak same language, they saw themselves as separated countries.

While men were in at the agora, which is kind of like public places that used for assemblies and markets. Women just gets to stayed at home, to do all those housework, like cooking, cleaning, taking care of kids, and making clothes or stuff. Women doesn't get to vote, or hold office. Children stayed at home when they are under 7 years old. Only male children get to go to school, female children only get to stayed at home and learn how to do households. Most girls get married when they are around 15 years old, and most of them their father choose their future husband. It's such as a management of making sure his girl marry into a good family.

In Athens, population was divided into four social classes, and it's based on wealth. People changed their classes as they made more money. In Sparta, all MALE citizens get equal treatments if they finish their education.

Greek sports is also a really important part of their life. They also have Olympic. Every four years, the Olympic will held at the stadium at Olympia. They have boxing, weightlifting and the pentathalon. The pentathalon consisted of discus, long jump, running, wrestling and javelin. In the past, men were more involved in the sports stuff. Women are not expected to do those physical activities. Even man thinks that women are lame and low level in the past.

7 comments:

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Jen said...

You really went deep into answering the questions. What I like is how the information is like reading a kind of a planner or schedule for a life of a Greek, specifying whether it was male or female or a child.
I can tell that you did your research on valid and unbiased sites because I did the same question as you and our answers are almost similar.
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