Athens by Georgie Clarke

gclarke8 — 2015-10-15 01:01:59 UTC

The Acropolis

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It stands on limestone it is over 153 metres tall, 265 metres long and 153 metres wide

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Live in Athens was hard for the daughters because they did not get educated in a school they were educated at home by their mother and they were taught household cleaning and how to make clothes, weaved blankets for beds, curtains for doorways and decoration for walls. [Source A] The Athenians girls got married at around 14 years old and their husbands were over 30 year old. The boys went to school at the age of 7 and learnt how to read, write and arithmetic. They learn the poet Homer off by heart. When the boys were 12 they were taught music. “Music was believed to create harmony”. They also believed that if the boy had a good mind they needed a good body. [Source A and B] The military and politics was very important to Athens because the military was how they got rich they would say to the other city if you give us money we will protect you. In the 5 century BC Athens became one of the largest and wealthiest state in Greece.

Athena symbol

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Athena

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Pnyx

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Usually every 10 days male citizens met on a hill called the Pnyx.

Images

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http://www.davidgill.co.uk/attica/pnyx/pnyx_bema.htm

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Pericles

gclarke8 — 2015-10-21 02:06:09 UTC

Athens leader in the 5 bc

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Athens believed that gods and goddesses watched over them. The gods and goddesses were like humans, but immortal and very powerful. Athena, the Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom and war, was the goddess of Athens. Her parents were Zeus and Metis. There is a story that Athena leaped from the head of Zeus, already adult, dressed with her armour and her symbol is the owl. [Source C] Athens also have a yearly festivals for athletics, drama andreligious occasion. They organised the Dionysia festival for the god Dionysus who was the god of the grape harvest and wine making and wine. The festival was a time for parties and wine drinking. [Sources A and C]

gclarke8 — 2015-10-21 02:21:05 UTC

Athens was governed by the people it was called democracy. Only male citizens had the say in how the city was run. Women could not be citizens nor could the slaves and the foreigner. Usually every 10 days male citizens met on a hill called the Pnyx. [Sources A] The people of Athens had social class to be in the upper class you had to be a citizen, a man, and to either have a high rank in the military. Very few families were in the upper class. The middle class was mostly metics or noncitizens who could not vote or own land were foreigners. The lower class was mostly free men who were once slaves or had very poor families. These people were not citizens and had very little say in, say in politics. The slaves were very common in Athens even poor families had one or two while wealthy families had 50 or more. The politics was good for Athens but the military was not as good a Spartans military because in Sparta the girls and boys go into the military, but inAthens the boy are the only people in the military. [Source A and B]

gclarke8 — 2015-10-21 02:35:14 UTC

Athens would have been hard for the girls because they did not get education like the boys did and they were married off very young. They did not go out much the slaves did all of the going out. They would have had a very lonely life because the only people as they saw really were their slaves and sometime, their husbands. So honestly I would not want to be one of the Athenians girls back in that day.

Bibliography

gclarke8 — 2015-10-23 02:26:07 UTC

Textbook, Published in 2012
Ancient, Published in 2003
www.bbc.co.uk/athens