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Daily Life

Freemen

  • Aristocrats at the top (rich)
  • Farmers
  • Urban craftsmen

Metics

  • Non-citzens

Slaves

  • Marriage and family life were very important
  • Women were considered inferior
  • Boys got education; girls were trained for household
  • Schooling from 5 to 14
  • Taught reading, writing, math, music, sport (typical of today)
  • Could go on to the academy for advance learning

Social Classes

  • Elementary schools for boys – reading writing, grammar, poetry, music, and gymnastics
  • Older boys studied government, mathematics, ethics and rhetoric
  • Eighteen-year-old males received a year of military service

Gov't

Athen had multipe forms of gov't including tryants

Solon first reform the gov't

Cliethenes set the Council of 500 (first legislature)

Athenian democracy – direct democracy

-Every free male got one vote on every law

  • Invented-
  • The Western Arts: Drama, poetry
  • The Western Sciences: anatomy, geometry, astronomy, history
  • Archimedes screw, the first engine, Parthenon

Athens

Wheeler

Athenian Accomplishments

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