Question: know anything about mizithra cheese??
Answer: Mizithra cheese is made from the milk of a sheep. It is white, fresh, soft, fascile, if my French is any good. See Click here
Question: What are some myths that women reject thier ordinary feminine roles?
Answer: The Amazons did this consistently.
Question: what was the daily life for widows in ancient Greece like?
Answer: If they were poor they went bact to their family. If they were rich they got a new husband.
Question: What were the roles in the house of the women?
Answer: There were no houses of women. All houses belonged to men. Women were secluded into part of the house. The only houses that men did not own would have been the temples for the goddesses.
Question: What kind of role did horses play in Ancient Greece?
Answer: Horses were used to draw chariots and carts. Only the Amazons rode them and they rode them bare-backed. They were not effective draft animals for the Greeks because the halters that they used compressed the veins in their neck and restricted the flow of blood. I believe an effective horse halter was a medieval invention.
Question: How did they live, where, what was thier culter like?
Answer: Read above and click on the Menu Directory below.
Question: what were some movies that they watch
Answer: Movies were invented about 100 years ago. The ancient Greeks lived about 3200 years ago. They lived during the time of the old testament of the Bible, the time of Moses in Egypt. Though the Greek ships went to Egypt and Phoenecia, they knew nothing of the stories of the Bible. They had their own stories. In those days people were entertained by roving bards who would travel from place to place and sing or speak poems that contained the stories and news that people wanted to hear. There were no TV's, radios, newspapers, magazines, no libraries, no bookstores. When you went to shop you went to a market that consisted of vendors set up under tents or in some cases right off a boat. For entertainment local people would dance and sing at festivals. Sometimes professional musicians were available. They would play the flute or the lyre.
Question: I need to research the role of women in Greek society. Where their any exceptions to this role? Who was Aspasia?
Answer: The role of women was to bear and raise children. There were many Greek women who were able to break out of this role to accomplish other things. Aspasia was one of these. She was a hetaerae and consort of Pericles. You can read about her on the page about hetaera at: Click here
Question: How did women's life change from then and now?
Answer: Then there was slavery, women had no education, could not vote, and stayed secluded. Now slavery is gone, women are educated, vote, and can go anywhere they want. But to be an Antigone is still hard.
Question: what do they eat?
Answer: They ate: roast meat including beef, pork, mutton, and goat; fruits and nuts especially grapes, bread made of wheat or barley, various green vegetables, olives and olive oil, and wine.
Question: How did the status of women improve during the Roman Times?
Answer: Some of the Roman matrons wielded a great deal of power and they were able to get laws passed that were favorable to women.
Question: I am making a diary of a 13 year old girl in greece what should i include?
Answer: First identify a time and place, then a personality. Some suggestions is provided by the following images of art of young girls:
Then pick the class of the girl.
Question: how would the children travelle to school every day?
Answer: They might board with the teacher, or they would walk.
Question: What was the role of women in the middle ages?
Answer: Judy Chicago writes: "Out of the convulsions of the early Middle ages, the family emerged as the most stable force. Women, as part of the family, played a central role and thereby achieved a new measure of personal freedom. They could own and administer property and during their husband's absence, usually managed the estates, presided over the courts, took charge of the vassal service, administered justice, signed treaties, made laws, and-- in coms cases--commanded troups, But marriage was not always a pleasant proposition. For noblewomen, it was almost always based on economic or political gain. A landed man could improve his status by marrying a woman with property of her own."
Question: What was their culture like?
Answer: The Athenians achieved one of the highest cultures ever; but it was full of change and stress. War and death were contant issues. Sanitation was poor an diseases were common. But they were very creative people and made much of what they had. Art made their cities beautiful. Their dedication to excellence meant that there were exciting festivals and events. Their skill with the sea meant goods were available from many lands. And the stories that they lived and wrote are some of the best ever.
Question: HOW OLD WERE GIRLS WHEN THEY GOT MARRIED
Answer: They could marry as soon as they were able to become pregnant. This is about 13.
Question: What does the bed of an ancient aristocrat/God look like?
Answer: Their idea of a bed was more what we think of as a cot. They did have double beds for couples though I doubt they were more than twice the size of a cot and they were probably two beds pulled together. Links to pictures follow:
what kinds of alcohol would they drink
Wine and beer.
Question: what did the women do all day
Answer: They worked very hard. Their work included: weaving, cooking cleaning, carrying water and wastes, educating children, and many religious rituals.
Question: What chores did children have to do?
Answer: Children did have chores, but they also played games. When they were able they did the same chores as adults. Boys did have shool outside the home which they attended. Girls received their education in the home.
Question: In ancient Greece what food often took the place of meat?
Answer: Barley was the staple food. Lentils and beans, olives, cheese, and eggs supplemented this.
Question: what was the occupation of women during this time
Answer: Most of the women of citizens and wealthier families were bearing children and raising them. Most of the rest of the women were waiting on these women. These included relatives and slaves. Women took care of the house including weaving cloth and preparing food. There were also women entertainers and prostitutes called hetarae.
Question: What was the schedule like for an ancient greek women? Starting from when whe woke up, to when she went to bed?
Answer: Schedule
Question: What food did they eat in ancient Greece
Answer: They ate sauces of olive oil and cheese flavored with cumin seed.
Question: What were women like in Greek life, was there a difference between the city-states, did women in ancient Greece's roles change drastically over time?
Answer: There were differences between the city states with Athens on the liberal side and Sparta on the conservative extreme. There was a revolutionary change in the Greek Society that dramatically affected women and had a profound effect on the entire world to this day. You get a sense of this change be reading the literature of the Greeks. In several hundred years the Greeks went from a fairly primitive state to a culture that may be one of the highest ever achieved. Women, along with the men, helped to carry this about. There has been criticism of the Greek culture that the women were isolated and put-down. But it seems like much of this isolating may have been for the purpose of freeing the Greek women of primitive taboos. The Greek women at the time of the Trojan war seem freer than the later women, but it is likely this is because the taboos have simply been forgotten. The Greeks of the Golden Age were rational in their outlook and temper. One of their great accomplishments was that they were able to overthrow the many superstitions of primitive society.
Question: I want to know how the women in ancient greece did their weaving?
Answer: They used a warp-weighted loom with string heddles.
Question: free time
Answer: The Ancient Greek men went to symposiums and festivals. The women just went to festivals except for hetaera and prostitutes who went to symposiums as entertainment.
Question: what is the daily life and times like of peasant classes?
Answer: There were no peasant classes. There were only slaves.
Question: Who prepared the food in acient greece
Answer: Men tended to prepare meat while women prepared bread. But most cooking was done by women.
Question: How did Greek women weave cloth. What tools and materials did they use? Did they dye the cloth different colors?
Answer: The greek women used a vertical, warp weighted loom with a string heddle. They died their cloth many different colors.
Question: what different types of food did the greeks eat in the early days?
Answer: Homer describes food in his poems but mainly it involved roast meat on flat bread with vegetables and fruit.
Question: how does greek food differ from other cultures foods?
Answer: A culture's food often depends on what grows in the vicinity of that culture. Grapes and olives grew in Greece so they are important to the Greek food.
Question: Who is the greek goddess of potterry
Answer: Athena.
Question: How were greek women treated
Answer: Even though they were not allowed to vote, most wives were treated very well. In most cases marriages were arranged by the girl's father, but the husband had to be very considerate of the wife if the wife was going to produce healthy children. The husbands did not even make many sexual demands of their wives but turned to the Hetaerae instead. Hetaerae were not treated as well as wives, but they had more freedom. Unfortunately, not every woman could qualify as a hetaerae. These women were intelligent, beautiful, graceful, and socially skilled. They were the kind of women who always seem to get favors from men, and they survived very well on those favors. Other women had to work very hard. Some were the wives of foreigners. Others were slaves. Some slaves were treated as well as a member of the family but many were restricted to drudgery. Some were even forced to be sex slaves and prostitutes.
Question: What were dishes and utensils like.
Answer: Mainly they were given a piece of flat bread and their food was placed on that. Wine was drunk in a footed cup made of ceramic.
Question: What kind of restaurants, if there were any, existed in ancient greece?
Answer: Most business people had their business right in their home. Though there were no restaurants in our sense there were plenty of homes you could go to buy a meal. p>Question: First, thank you for a very informative and interesting web site. I am wondering about the demographics of the various classes of women, what percentage were wives, concubines, intelectual prostitutes, plain old prostitutes, and slaves? Also, what was the average life expectancy? And what was the average number of childern a woman would have, and can you compare it to the number of pregnancies? - thanks!
Answer: My guess is that about one quarter of the women were wives, one quarter were daughters and other relatives and one quarter were slaves. The rest were free women, either hetaera or foreigners. I doubt that even 1 hetaera in a hundred was an intellectual and the slave prostitutes probably outnumbered the hetaera by a factor of ten. The average life expectancy was about 36 due to the large number of babies that died. My guess is that the average number of births was 7 with 5 living as old as adolescence. Perhaps there were 8 pregnancies per woman. The poor conditions of sanitation caused the large number of deaths in the very young.
Question: slaves
Answer: Slaves were a common feature of ancient Greek society. A slave is the property of another person and required to do the bidding of that person. There were no peasants in ancient Greece. Peasants belong to the land on which they live. Though they are not required to do the bidding of the land owner, they are required to make their living off the land and cannot leave it. Usually they would pay a portion of their crop to the land owner, but even if they did not farm the land they would be required to pay rent or taxes to the land owner. Peasants were part of the medieval serfdoms. Just as a master could have sex with his female slaves a landowner could demand sex with his female serfs.
Question: What were dishes & utensils like?
Answer: Greek pottery is very important artistically. But usually they did not use pottery at meals. Each diner was given a piece of flat bread and then a piece of meat on the bread. Most food was eaten with the fingers. Knive s were used to cut the meat: Click here. Cooks used more implements: C lick here. Grain was gound between two flat stones, one on top of the other.
Question: where can i find information on the roles women played in the topics relating to households, merchandise and orcicles in ancient greek times??
Answer: Click here As to merchandise women were involved with weaving. What is an orcicle?
Question: Hoe did women in Ancient Greece entertained themselves?
Answer: Mainly they did things together: weaving, sewing, washing, drawing water, cooking, and other domestic chores. During their breaks they would dance, sing, and play ball. Sometimes they would run races together. They would get out of the house during religious festivals when there were processions and ceremonies. The women were especially involved in the religious festivals for the goddesses. There were festivals 4 or 5 times a month.
Question: What were the social classes in Ancient Greece?
Answer: From the highest to the lowest:
Question: greek recipe for a desert
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Question: Were women allowed to ente the house via the front door?
Answer: Houses had only one door.
Question: Are the roles of women in ancient Greece more restricted than the roles of women in ancient Eygpt?What are the differences?
Answer: No. Greek women had many educational oportunities.
Question: in ancient greece was food grown in fields or in gardens?
Answer: Though there were many gardens, still there were many fields as well.
Question: what was the type of food the ancient greece people eat?
Answer: Roasted goat, lamb, and fish, olives, grapes, quinces, barley and wheat bread, and green vegetables. For more information click on the Menu Directory below and then click on daily.
Question: what power did each family member have, what was there duties
Answer: Fathers worked outside the home and wives worked in the home. The fathers, sons, and male slaves, worked orchards, vinyards, metalwork, woodwork, stone work, and defense. Women, daughters, and women slaves did weaving and food perparation such as grinding grain, raising young children, and caring for the house. The eldest father was responsible for everyone, while his wife was responsible for the women. grinding grain.
Question: What was the role of pets in ancient greece?
Answer: Pets provided companionship. Pets included pigeons and dogs. Dogs were used for hunting. Herons were also kept as pets. They were sacred to Aphrodite.
Question: type of food prepared
Answer: Fish was a favorite food, and they ate beef and land roasted. They drank wine and had various fruits including grapes, figs, and quinces. They ate green vegetables as well.
Question: Where did they go to the bathroom? How did they stay clean? What did women do about their periods every month?
Answer: Chamber pots were used with the waste carried out to the field and spread around for fertilizer. To stay lean they rinsed their bodies and clothes in clean water. Oil was applied to improve the smell of bodies and clothes. Since men and women were separated the women had to do little about their periods except keep themselves clean.
Question: I am typing a report on things of ancient greece and i need a lot of info. on animal sacrifice and the homeless, please help..
Answer: Many types of sacrifice are indexed at Click here. Here is a picture of Cows being led to sacrifice: Click here. A ram is led to sacrifice: Click here. Three drivers lead a struggling ox to sacrifice: Click here
Click on the menu directory below and then click on sacrifice of virgins.
Homelessness was a very uncommon state in ancient Greece. Unfortunately homeless people were commonly caught into slavery. If they were useful then they were sold. If they were useless they were then killed or allowed to die. The family was more important in those days. If your family could not protect you and care for you when you were down and out, then you ended up as a slave. The good thing about slavery is that whoever bought you included you in their family. The bad thing was that you were then forced to do drudgery and if you did not work you were killed or left to die. Sex crimes could easily be perpetrated on a slave.
Question: what kind of everyday food did the ancient greeks eat?
Answer: Barley bread, fish, fruit, olives, vegetables.
Question: group of women from ancient greece allowed to be very educated?
Answer: Any woman in ancient Greece was allowed to educate herself, but it was not required. Only some of the hetaerae were required to be educated.
Question: what was the marketplace called?
Answer: Most markets were in the Agora, but not all of them. There were also deigmata or specialized market halls. The Agora was like a market square in the Greek city.
Question: how was the family life
Answer: The family was very important, but it is not clear how much time they spent together. The males stayed outside while the women stayed together in the women's quarters. They probably got together at least one a day for a meal. The ancient Greeks were a very public people so the family spent a lot of time with processions and festivals.
Question: what did they where on there feet
Answer: Click on the menu Directory below then click on sandals.
Question: Did women cook in under class familys or did they have slaves
Answer: Women cooked in lower class families, but sometimes the men cooked the meat.
Question: were they sexualy trained
Answer: Click on the Menu Directory below and click on hetaera or love and sex.
Question: what did they cook with?
Answer: Meat was roasted over an open fire. Bread was baked in an oven. Metal pans were available for roasting and frying over an open fire.
Question: How were the potter's paid in ancient greece?
Answer: Coins were minted to ease trading.
Question: Who provided childcare other then the mothers
Answer: Other female relatives, a unmarried women of the family, a nurse, or a family slave.
Question: what did a woman do when her husband died?
Answer: She cried a lot because this was a disaster to her. In those days a women needed a male guardian to survive. If she was old her male sons could take care of her. If she was young and attractive she would marry again. If she had children or was ugly she would return to her father unless she was wealthy. Wealthy women were assigned a new husband by their family.
Question: difference between minoan women and mycenaen women
Answer: There is a suggestion that women were seen as more valuable by the Minoans, but this is not clear. Minoan women are more often illustrated and they are more elaborately dressed when they are illustrated. That they were more likely to expose their breasts suggests that they may have been more sexually expressive.
Question: who served in the military?
Answer: Every able-bodied man.
Question: How was the cooking done? What were the ovens like? Clay, stone? Used for baking, roasting? Was most cooking done on an open fire?
Answer: Most cooking was done on an open fire. For most meats a spit was braced over the fire and turned. Some vegetables were cooked this way, but most were boiled in metal or clay pots. Fish was pan fried in a metal or clay pan. Bread was baked in a beehive oven made of bricks or clay. The fire was made in the oven then the coals were removed. The heat of the oven baked the bread. Some bread was also baked in flat pans.
Question: what kind of lige did the noblewoman live
Answer: Homer describes Arete and this may be taken as an indication of how the noblewomen lived at the time of the Trojan war. She was a woman of great beauty who helped women settle disputes with their husbands. She and here maids prepared clothes for her household. She was in charge of the maids and commanded them as to what to do to keep the house. As a noble woman she slept with her husband. She also served at the command of her husband, though she usually passed these commands off to her maids.
Question: Where can I find information about Greek slaves?
Answer: Read above.
Question: what kind of life did the nun live
Answer: There were no nuns in ancient Greece. There were priestesses though. In ancient Greece the goddesses were most commonly served by priestesses who enjoyed considerable freedom and prestige.
Question: Why are there so many separate city-states in Acient Greece?
Answer: Poor communication restricted the size of government, and direct democratic control restricted it as well.
Question: what do you do when you farm
Answer: Farming in ancient Greece involved:
Favorite crops in ancient Greece were: grapes, olives, barley, flax, wheat, and vegetables. They also grew poultry, eggs, pigs, beef, sheep, and goats.
Question: Some people think that women were utterly powerless or helpless whenit comes to how they were treated and how men at that time viewed them. I don't Think that is true. I think they had their share of power inside the home. Can you help me out?
Answer: Lysistrata: "A man gets no joy if he does not get along with his wife." The fact is that men wrote about their world and what they thought of women but the women did not write of their world and what they thought of men. We have a one-sided view.
Question: Could women in Sparta go to the agora?
Answer: My guess is that they could but they did not want to. A higher class woman would send a lower class women for her.
Question: What are the social classes of ancient Greece?
Answer: Basically there were citizens, free non-citizens, and slaves. Within the citizen class there were voting men, non-voting women, and children. Within the free non-citizen class there were hetaerae, foreigners, and freed slaves. Among the slaves there were temple slaves, household slaves, professional slaves, slave managers, and field slaves and miners.
Question: how were the roads made in acient greece?
Answer: Most important transportation was on the sea, so the important roads ran to a port. They were made of dirt or some were paved with stone. The roads carried large two-wheeled carts, chariots, and foot traffic, including sedan chairs.
Question: what kind of meat did the greeks eat?
Answer: Mainly fish, but also lamb, goat, pork, and beef.
Question: How did the Greek gods/goddesses effect daily life of the Greek people?
Answer: Much of their lives were organized around rituals which were performed to please the deities. Holidays were holy days that were dedicated to the deities. Some political activities such as laws, judgements, and the establishment of boundaries, were influenced by the deities.
Question: How does the house look like from inside and what is the function of each room?
Answer: Ancient Greek houses were sparsely decorated, with little furniture. Tripod stools and tables were common on rough dirt floors. Wealthier homes had couches, beds and a chair. Usually the most important person sat in a chair. A bedroom included perhaps a bed. Meeting rooms included most of the furniture. Storage rooms included jars and chests. Bathrooms were rare on the Greek mainland but more common in the Minoan civilization. Sometimes a special room was fitted with couches for a symposium. A house had one or more courtyard where cooking and other tasks were done. For pictures click on the menu directory below and click on architecture.
Question: What is a "sedan chair"?
Answer: A sedan chair is a portable enclosed chair that has poles so it can be carried by two men, front and back. A picture from Elizabethan England is : Click here. This was a common conveyance in ancient times but I have not found any pictures.A litter is a similar device.
Question: Did the women do any activities outside of the home?
Answer: Only religious festivals and other religious activities. Poorer women and slave women fetched water also.
Question: Was there a "kitchen god" in ancient Greek culture if so, who?
Answer: There were no kitchens, only hearths. Hestia was the goddess of the hearth. While important goddesses like Athena would require monthly rituals and celebrations, Hestia would require them daily.
Question: Is today's Greek food different from the Ancient Greeks ?
Answer: Yes. But there are similarities. Modern Greek food has spices and ingrediants from other countries. But honey, flat bread, and lamb are still common.
Question: How much has Greek cuisine evolved
Answer: Modern cuisine has considerable variety compared to the ancient cuisine.
Question: How did women take care of their children?
Answer: There was considerable variety in this. Spartan children were not swaddled but Athenian children were. Mothers either nursed the children, used wet nurses, or bottle fed them. Cradles might be used. A variety of children's toys are used including balls, hoops, and spinning tops. Infants had rattles and bells. Dolls and doll houses were used. Swings, seesaws and yo-yos competed with miniature carts and chariots. Games involved dice and knucklebones.
Question: where do I find yogurt
Answer: IN ancient Greece cheese, yogurt, and milk came from goats and not cows.
Question: What kind of training did a rich girl have to go through?
Answer: Rich girls could choose training but they did not have to endure any. Mostly their mother trained them to be mothers. If they were honored to become a priestess they were trained to perform their role. They might choose to be trained as a dancer or musician. They would have to train themselves in philosophy, rhetoric, or any of the other liberal arts. Fortunately many did choose to train themselves as they were some of the most accomplished women ever.
Question: Women and property laws
Answer: Only in Sparta could women own property.
Question: What did they use to prepare meals with?
Answer: Meals were prepared over an open fire. They used a spit to roast meat, a pan to fry, or a pot to boil. Pictures of cooking:
Question: how did greeks kept clean?
Answer: They washed in water and olive oil.
Question: who were the once who look out to childrens?
Answer: Mothers took care of daughters until they married. Mothers took care of sons until they went to school, then teachers took care of them.
Question: Do you have any information on the stela of a young girl holding a bird
Answer: There is a marble piece at New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, called "Stele of Young Girl from Paros" which is the image of a Young girl from Paros who seems to be kissing one of the pigeons she is holding. An evaluation of this image is found at: Click here An image and an evaluation is found at: Click here
These sites say a lot but not everything. Pigeons were an important source of meat for the ancient Greeks, and they raised a lot of Pigeons. Doves are sacred to Aphrodite and there is not a lot of difference between a pigeon and a dove. For these two reasons letting a young girl have pigeons as pets would be consistent with societal mores. Note the similarity to the following image of Aphrodite riding on a swan: Click here
Question: Can you answer this question? "It has been said many times that ancient Greece is a man's world" Do you agree or disagree? If you agree, can you list ten facts that prove that you agree to this statement.
Answer: I do not agree. Ancient Greece included a man's world where the men were in control. But within the home was a women's world with women in control. Women also had their own temples and festivals. Women did not leave as good a record as the men. What we have are men talking about their world. It would be interesting to hear the other side.
Question: how was daily in troy
Answer: We do not know very much about the people of Troy. The Achaeans mentioned by Homer seem to be the Mycenaeans mentioned by Archeologists. But though the Trojans spoke Greek they may not be Mycenaeans. They might have been Dorians, in which case they are more related to the classical Greeks than their conquerers. They could also have been Hittites, but this is not very likely. In Book III of Homer's Iliad Priam says: "When I was in Phrygia I saw much horsemen, the people of Otreus and of Mygdon, who were camping upon the banks of the river Sangarius; I was their ally, and with them when the Amazons, peers of men, came up against them, but even they were not so many as the Achaeans." Priam seems to be saying that his people are neither Phrygians or Hittites, but we do not know which is which. Their are a few details about life in Troy in the Iliad, but obviously this covers a time when Troy was at war. The Trojans worshipped the Greek deities but Priam ruled as an oriental potentate with a harem.
Question: I am the person who asked this question "It has been said many times that ancient Greece is a man's world" Do you agree or disagree? My teacher said that ancient Greece was a man's world. So I am not sure who to believe in. Okay, if you disagree to this statement, can you list ten facts to prove that you disagree or to prove why you disagree?
Answer: Hera, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Hestia, Demeter, Persephone, Hecate, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Themis. If a man were to cross any one of these goddesses, he would be done in. Do you think any of these goddesses would allow women to be abused or humiliated?
Question: Do you know what other things were found in an or the agora?
Answer: In addition to vendors there were assembly meetings, theatrical performances, and even chariot races.
Question: Can you tell me what did the money changers do at an or the agora?
Answer: Money changers change foreign money into local money and provide smaller denominations for larger ones, or vise versa. They also take deposits and make loans. Some even provide shipping insurance.
Question: Do you know who would a greek master visit if he wanted something made?
Answer: A master sculptor would visit a smith for a chisel or casting. for a mallet or a scaffold he would visit a joiner. For marble he would visit the quarry of a miner.
Question: Do you know who carried purchases?
Answer: Purchases were usually carried in a cart driven by a carter.
Question: Where would a greek master buy things that he needed?
Answer: Many things could be purchased from a vendor in the Agora but some things would be purchased at the home of the maker.
Question: Do you know if a greek master is a master sculptor?
Answer: The Greek sculptors were masters of all time and are still very important. Greek playwrights and poets are similarly important. Also ancient Greek philosophers and historians. But there were lesser masters in wrestling, music, and arts which have more limited importance. Painters may be important, but none of their work remains. Pottery masters may be important but their contribution is debated and they are not well identified. The ancient Greeks produced many different kind of masters in many areas.
Question: Did they feed the babies to the crockidiles
Answer: This is very unlikely. Crocodiles are tropical animals that do not live in Greece. These animals were plentiful in Egypt where they were worshipped. Also exposure was not considered murder and unwanted babies were exposed. Feeding babies to animals would have been considered murder and was condemned by the ancient Greeks.
Question: pictures of pots
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Question: What was a grande, well known party or 'ball' of the gods & goddesses that I could use for a Homecoming theme?
Answer: The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
Question: what did mycenean women do?
Answer: Mycenaean women did the same things as their classical greek counterparts, except they were less restricted in their movement. They did not seem to be confined to the realm of the home. They also seemed to be more active in politics and social life.
Question: did Ancient Greeks use toothpicks??
Answer: Tooth picks are much more likely than tooth brushes. They were fortunate that their coarse diet helped their teeth.
Question: did Ancient Greeks have coffee?Did they use smoke or some kind of drugs?
Answer: No coffee or tea, but they did have wine and over 600 herbal medicines including opium.
Question: What did ancient greek houses look like (In colour)?
Answer: The ancient Greek did not like to do images of their houses and I know of none. What follows is a picvture from ancient Crete. Roman houses also seem similar.
Question: Do we know how women interacted with one another?
Answer: Not really. We have a lot of reports of what men saw. Women did not report nearly as often, and sometimes their reports have been destroyed by jealous men.
Question: What did women do outside the home?
Answer: On a daily basis some woman had to fetch fresh water, though this was often a slave. The only other occaison that a woman had for leaving the home on a regular basis was a festival. Festivals did occur every few days so there were lots of opportunities to leave the home to be with other women. Some festivals were for both sexes while others were for women only. Some women did attend school which was outside the home. Hetaerae were able to attend the men's functions and were much freer to move about than the other women.
Question: compare and contrast family values
Answer: Your family was more important in ancient Greece. It determined where you could live, who you could marry, and what kind of work you had. It protected you from criminals and determined how much taxes you would pay. If you were sick it determined what kind of care you got, and if you were old or infirm it determined whether you got any care at all. If your family was poor you could be sold into slavery to help pay of their debts.
Question: what was the schedule what children did in Ancient greece
Answer: Children became adults quite early. When they were very young they played most of the day. When they could girls did work with their mothers. Boys went to school. Girls were married about 13. After boys went to school they helped their father. They were not married until 28 or so. Their daily schedule involved two meals: one at noon and one in the evening. They worked in the morning and afternoon. The evening meal was an extended social period. A bard might provide entertainment.
Question: What type of mines did they have
Answer: flat metal pans, pots, kettles, and cauldrons. Clay pots were also used. Meat was cooked on a spit. Utensils included knives, pattles and wooden spoons. Food was brought to the table on platters, but it was served on flat bread.
Question: what were the kids schedules all day long
Answer: The sun determined when people got up and went to bed. The activities of small children were determined by the two meals served at noon and in the evening. The evening meal was a social time when the family gathered. Larger children went to school. Girls that did not want to go to school worked with their mothers.
Question: what is the chores of a kid in Athens?
Answer: Most boys and some girls had schoolwork for chores. Some of the grirs did the same domestic work as their mother. This included carrying water and wastes, grinding grain, and cleaning. Girls might spin, but they probably did not weave until they were older.
Question: What times of the day did greeks pray?
Answer: One interesting feature of the ancient Greek worship is that they had no mandatory religious rituals, but rather performed them as needed. But there were daily prayers. One common prayer was that the house fire would start. If it did not then someone from the house would have to make a trip to the temple of Hestia to appease the goddess and get a light. Other daily prayers might involve the weather or tasks of the day.
Question: what was barley meal used for in ancient greece and where is a website explaing it?
Answer: Of the grains barley grew best in ancient Greece. It was probably a common ingredient in their flat bread. Like rice it can be steamed and eaten alone or in soups.
Question: what were some of the roles in the ancient Greek familys?
The ancient Greek faqmily was a political unit that sometimes sent a representative to serve in the government. Within that unit tasks were divided by sex with women assigned to tasks in the home and men asigned to tasks outside the home. Most of the women's tasks were domestic. Exceptions Included tasks relateds to clothing manufacture, bread making, the sewing of seed, and the entertainment of men. Within the family most often only the head man of the family issued commands to women with those commands issued to his wife. The women had a chain of command that drifted down from the head wife. The hetaerae who performed the entertainment existed outside of this chain of command and negotiated with their clients.
The outside of the house activities performed by the men included labor and trading, politics, and military. Men farmed, manufactured, transported goods, crafted, and performed services.
Both men and women served the deities, and both cooked.
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Question: Do you have a picture of Homer?
Answer: The Albani Homer (Roman copy of an original ca. 2 c. B.C.). But be aware that this piece was sculpted some 600 years after Homer died.
Question: What was the life of a bard probably like?
Answer: Bards led an itinerant life. They traveled around the country staying as an honored guest in homes where they made their presentation. They did not travel alone but brought aprentices with them. They attended public meetings and court sessions where they learned news. They also attended presentations by other bards. Sometimes at festivals bardic competitions were held. They earned money by reciting or writing poetry.
Questions: is it allways hot i acient greece?
Answer: The weather in Greece has gotter a little hotter over the years. Ancient Greece had warm summers and mild winters.
Question: why were craftsmen imprtant in ancient greece
Answer: The craftsman were the ones who made the art that made ancient Greece famous. It is clear they were motivated more by religion than money because when their religion was broken, the art stopped. The ancient Romans even noticed this. The ancient Romans demanded the Greek art and payed high prices for it, but the Greeks lost their ability to produce it.
Question: Cooks?
Answer: The first recorded Olympic champion was a Greek cook named Koroibos. Both men an women cooked and I suspect some were slaves and others not. Men often cooked the meat while women cooked bread.
Question: How old do you have to be to drink alcohol?
Answer: Apart from water most of the drinks were alcoholic. This was mainly because there was no refrigeration. Grapes were harvested in the fall. Some could be dried, but most grapes were converted into juice before they spoiled. The juice would only last a few weeks before it started to ferment. The fermentatation process lasted a few weeks more and the result was wine. After it was decanted the wine was placed in sealed bottles. Wine was sealed with a layer of oil in those days. In this condition it would last six months or more. If you wanted something to drink beside water most of the year you got wine. Mead and beer were alternatives involving other juices that also naturally fermented. Bread is thought to have resulted from beer production.
Wine did not have as much alcohol as it does today, and it was usually diluted when drunk. For this reason alcoholism was not as much of a problem as it is today. And because there was no motorized vehicles or machinery there were few alcohol related accidents. A few people did drink in excess, but mainly they just got sick. Distilled alcohol brought more problems, but that was not available for another 1500 years. Opium was more of a problem, but it was expensive and few had access to it. Opium seems to have been used medically while social affairs used wine. There were no laws relatingeither to opium or alcohol.
Question: was it hard for men or any one to find a job that time? What are the common job that they do?
Answer: Slaves were required to do what they were told. Most slaves performed menial manual labor or service jobs. Free men usually followed the work of their family. But many could work as a trader.
Question: What is another article we could write for for our ancient greek education magazine?
Answer: What about memory. Memory was much more important in ancient Greece because writing was so much more difficult. Legal people had to have the laws commited to memory because books were too expensive. People had to remember speaches because there were no newspapers. Messengers had to remember messages that they delivered after running many miles. Students had to remember what the teacher said because books were scarce.
Question: How many women slaves did the men have?
Answer: Usually none. In a normal household the men supervised the male slaves and the women supervised the female slaves. If a man wanted a woman slave for sex he would have to set her up in her own house. A desirable woman was so expensive that usually the men had to share a slave. Some hetaerae got their start this way. By playing one owner against the other the slave was able to buy her own freedom. This often happened in quite a short time so these slaves could be quite profitable. But the wives were not happy when they learned of this type of investment.
Question: What was the life of a wealthy women?
Answer: A wealthy spent her time directing her servants and weaving. She attended many dinners with guests.
Question: what do the gods have to do with it?
Answer: Gods were only referenced as needed but the normal person had daily needs for food and its preparation which suggested a daily reference. Hestia, the goddess of the Hearth, Demeter, the goddess of grain, and Dionysus, the god of the vine, are examples of deities that might relate to daily needs.
Question: How did sisters greet eachother?
Answer: Antigone and Ismene just start talking. In Lysistrata the women just say 'Hi'.
Question: How do Ancient Greeks heat their homes?
Answer: There was no heat in their rooms. Each house included a courtyard with a fireplace in the center. Walls and windows may have been covered with weavings.
Question: what happened with homeless people in ancient greece?
Answer: There were a number of possibilities:
Question: materails in ancient Greece
Answer: Materials:
Question: Why did the Greeks drink more wine than water?
Answer: Ancient Greece was a dry climate and water was scarce. What water there was did not taste that good. The grapes were tasty and juicy and when squeezed made a tasty juice. But it did not keep very long. After a week to several months it always turned to tasty wine. The wine would keep for longer, perhaps six months or more. Then it turned to vinegar. But the vinegar tasted bad. The wine had to be consumed before it turned to vinegar.
Though the juice is tasty, sometimes its starts to ferment in your stomach so some people do not like to drink it. Plus the alcohol is calming and pleasant. So most people drank the wine. They mixed the wine with water because the water would taste better.
Question: what did girls do to prepare for marriage?
Answer: They tried to be chaste and they attended to domestic duties. Some learned music and dance. In Sparta they exercised naked in front of the young men.
Question: Is it true that slave woman were forced to give sexual plesure to there masters
Answer: This is certainly true. But the stories one reads about sexual slavery are not very truthful. A master could abuse a slave, but an abused slave usually would not work well. A slave was an investment that had to be protected. Slaves were not allowed to get pregnant because of the interruption of service this would provide. Sexually desirable slaves would be very expensive. So expensive that more than one man usually ended up as owner. If well treated these women could be very profitable. The profit motive usually restricted the abuse of such a slave. But sometimes such a slave would be forced into prostitution. But it was not the master who would get the pleasure, but rather the customer. I say forced because a girl who did not cooperate might be killed, or sold to work in the mines. In the mines the slaves were ruled with a whip and those that did not perform were flogged. Many died underground because the work was so dangerous. A slave girl was used to prepare food and provide sex as rewards for the miners and their masters. Being sent to the mines was such a horrible punishment that slaves usually behaved.
Question: What was the most popular board game, and how was it playes?
Answer: Kurke, L. "Ancient Greek Board Games and How to Play Them," (1999)
Question: What did a mother do after she was done giving birth to a child?
Answer: After giving birth a mother might want to nurse her child. This would give the baby the best start as the mother passes immunity to her child through her milk and mother's milk provides the best nourishment. There is also some indication that the early care the mother gives the baby improves the psychological development of the baby. But some mothers were not confortable with the large breasts that produce milk and others wanted to get pregnant again soon. Nursing a baby inhibits the ability of a mother to get pregnant. These mothers would turn their babies over to a wet nurse. In ancient Greece swaddling varied from place to place. A swaddled bably did not interfere with a mother's work as much as an unswaddled one, but the unswaddled one might develop better with more activity of the limbs. In some communities a mother's work was restricted to taking care of babies, while in others they had other tasks to perform.
Question: How did greek city states affect american life today?
Answer: The Greek city-states were a laboratory of political experiment with the results repoted by the passion of Greek literature. The founding fathers of U.S.A. were strongly influenced by the writings of the ancient Greeks.
Question: What were the social classes of Ancient Greece?
Answer: This question cannot easily be answered because the situation varied according to the different city-states. Some cites such as Sparta and Athens have records but they have different classes. We have poor records for many city states and do not have this information for them.
Question: what did Spartans use for transportation
Answer: Ships, the same as the rest of Greece.
Question: Are the women in the Odyssey commen for their time or did some stand out.
Answer: The Odyssey is remarkable for the variety of women presented. Some of these women are still considered remarkable.
Question: did women and men sleep on the same bed
Answer: Yes they did. This was especially when they were interested in having sex. But the bed were quite small so when they needed sleep thy might have slept separately.
Question: im doing a project on noblewomen and i need to know if the noblewome/women treated there salves poorly, or with respect? PLEASE HELP!
Answer: House slaves were treated well because their loyalty was important. But if they were disloyal they would be killed. Field slaves might be ignored by the women because they were outside of their realm. But a noblewoman was under no obligation to treat slaves fairly or with justice.
Question: what kinds of utensils were there and what did they do
Answer: A lot of cooking was done on a spit, especially meat. Pots and mans were available of brass and copper, but mostly of ceramic. Most jars were mad of clay. Even some boxes were made of clay. Spoons and knives were used but no forks. Food was served on flat bread and eaten without utensils. pins and fibula were used on clothing. There were axes and adzes of several sorts.
Question: what did men in Sparta do on an average day?
Answer: The most common activity was war games. The second most common activity was war itself, usually against the Messenians.
Question: How many rooms are in the farmer's house? What are they?
Answer: The typical farmer had a house with just one room. A court may not be counted as a room but most houses had one. A larger house had separate rooms for men and women of the house with a bedroom for the husband and wife. Stil larger houses had a meeting room for a symposium. Sometimes there is a storeroom. Still larger houses had more than one court.
Question: what was a slaves day like
Answer: Some women slaves had to get up very early in the morning to go to the local well to fetch water for the house. Other slaves got up with the familt but they did not have to dress because they had no clothes to wear. Many then faced a day of drudgery. Normally two meals were eaten but the slaves got leftovers. After the second meal everyone relaxed and listened to a bard. No one worked after the sun went down.
Question: can u tell me y people like porn so much?
Answer: People want what is forbidden to them. The ancient Greeks could have all the pornography they wanted. To them it was poor art and they did not have to deal with it much. In our culture it is forbidden because of its sexual content. To many of us it is forbidden even though it is very poor quality art. Our culture tries to keep people ignorant of sex and since sex is naturally stimulating many people hoard pornography because of the little information that it does contain about sex. The ancient Greeks did not have to do this because there was a special class of women called hetaerae who would happily provide sex education to anyone. Any priestess of Aphrodite could also provide this information. In our society many kinds of sex information are forbidden and illegal to communicate. The result is that many of our citizens are ignorant about sex.
Question: what did they sleep on?
Answer: Most people slept on the ground on skins or pads but some got to sleep on beds:
Question: Where was cooking done?
Answer: Outside the house in an open fireplace. Some houses had a court surrounded by a patio. A fireplace was located in the center of this court.
Question: Did the Greeks eat reclining on couches like the Romans did?
Answer: Normally they ate standing up, sitting on the ground, or sitting on a thre-legged stool. At formal meals one person ate on a chair, while the others sat on stools. At a symposium, a special party for males only, the guests reclined on couches and reached for food which they ate in a reclining position.
Question: can you show me some things like amm what things tit the ancient greeks eat
Answer: Pictures of ancient Greek food:
Question: Some sources say that the ancient greeks did not eat meat often, yet other sources claim that they did. I was wondering how often the ancient greeks really did eat meat?
Answer: They ate meat during the festival but they preferred fish otherwise. So they ate meat four to eight times a month.
Question: the association of small boxes and baskets or other everyday objects with a female and private space in ancient greece
Answer: The world of women was in the home and this is where boxes and baskets were located. Baskets were used extensively with weaving. The boxes in the home were more in the form of chests. These would be used for the storage of clothing and other valuables. A study of these objects can be made as they appear in vase paintings.
Question: What did the upper class women do during ancient greek times?
Answered: Some were priestesses. Others stayed at home and visited with friends or commanded servants. Weaaving and baking bread were two activities that these women did.
Question: What was the schedule like for a greek man (from waking up to going to bed)?
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Question: I am doing a project about ancdient greece and I need to know if the master wanted something made, whom would he vist? please tell me the answer
Answer: Some things could be obtained through trade while others were made locally. Metals, precious stones, some foods, were traded for. Timber for ships was imported. Locally one could obtain ceramics, wine, olives, wool. Some things required women such as weaving and bread making. Other things men did such as smithing, or sculpture. In the case of a techinical item there is the precidence of Daedelus, who crafted difficult things. There were people who could engineer a difficult item.
Question: what did the money changers do at the agora?
Answer: They performed a number of useful functions. In general they exchange money from one country into money of another. Mostly people want money from their own country, but in trade they are often paid in money from another country. But in ancient times most countries issued money in the form of gold or silver. Gold and silver coins are always valued by weight, but in a free market, the ratio of a weight in gold to a weight in silver is never constant. In ancient times silver was even worth more than gold. This ratio is determined by the relative supply and demand of these two commodities. The money changers maintained accurate scales so they could weigh precious metals carefully. They also maintained the relative values so the one could be changed into another. Some coins are particularly decorative and this must be taken into account. Then there is the matter of small denominations of money. Knowing what was involved required a large set of data which must be maintained. Also skill at arithmetic is required. In many cases a merchant would not know of his profitability until he visited a money changer.
In order for a money changer to do business properly he would have to have lots of cash on hand. Though they would not do many of the functions of a bank, they did do a few of them. They could make loans and they could make an investment for you. They could also keep your money safe.
Question: Did they say prayers before dinner?
Answer: Prayers were said as needed so they did not just say prayers before dinner. But things were often needed and prayers were said often for this purpose. Sacrifices were a special occaision and often accompanied by prayers and feasting.
Question: is daily life the same as ancient life
Answer: Not exactly. The lives you read about in history books are normally exciting lives lead by rulers and aristocrats. The concept of daily life tries to get at ordinary and routine lives.
Question: I need some pictures about life of ancient greece in agora
Answer: I do not know of any. But it probably was just an outdoor market. I doubt it was for local merchants who had their shops in their house. It probably was for traders that came to Athens by ship, though many traders would sell right out of their ship. It would be interesting to know what was being sold. Most of the stuff was for men as the women remained at home. Traders would have had to sell door-to-door to sell to the women.
The ancient Greeks did not include images of the Agora in their art. They preferred images of divinities and ancient heroes.
Question: What was daily schedule for a greek woman? Please make it detailed!
Answer: In most homes women's tasks were specialized but there were tasks that had time associated with them. Schedule tasks:
Three nude hetaerae at a symposium
Note: I cannot find an image of men and women eating together. The only women I find eating are nude hetaerae. Evidently women served the men and ate seperately from them.
Question: Do you think the Greek have had greater sway over the development of Western Culture than the Chinese have had? What characteristics that support your opinion are evident today?
Answer: Yes. Alexander spread Greek culture to the east and Rome spread it to the west. Whole generations of students have studied Greek culture to the exclusion of other cultures. The fact is that Greek culture is the basis of our so-called rational side, and suprisingly has much to do with our irrational side. Freud, when he looked at the subconscious, found a lot of Greek myth. Oddly, some things we attribute to Chinese culture, came to China through Alexander. The many type of martial art studies for the east began an pankratic wrestling in Greece.
Question: How were ancient greek men punished for adultery
Answer: Often they were not punished. If Hera is an indicator the wife directed any anger at the other woman. If a man had sex with a citizen's wife or daughter he could be sued. But a man could contract for his wife to have sex with another man for the prupose of getting her pregnant. A man could have sex with a hetaera or a slave without concern.
Question: Were there bandits on the road in ancient Greece and if so what would they do to a traveler?
Answer: The adventures of Theseus include stories about some horrific bandits. A bandit could steal your goods, torture you, or kill you.
Question: how to relate the tragedy of Medea(by euripides) to the women's status at that time?
Answer: This is difficult. The play was written by an author who lived almost 2500 years ago about a woman who lived 800 years earlier. We can assume that some of the play reflects conditions at the time of Medea and some reflects conditions at the time of the author. There were no authors at either time who had an interest in the conditions of women so there is little independent confirmation. Archeological studies are the best, but not conclusive due to the precision of the observations required.
Futhermore the question depends to some extent on the subject of sex and attitudes about sex. In our culture much information about sex is quite repressed. This makes the subject that much more difficult to address. For example: the Iliad contains a story about Zeus stringing Hera from the clouds, hanging anvils from her feet, and whipping her. Is this to be considered standard (ideal) behavior of husbands to their wives? Unfortunately the description of such behavior is considered pornographic in our society. This effectivly prohibits the study of this behavior in both societies. One opinion is that such beating improves the fertility of women and thus can be considered beneficial to their purpose. But how can such behavior be anything but a negative contribution to the condition of women? And yet if we leave this behavior out the condition of women will be much improved. What results is a doubt that we can address the subject of the condition of women in either culture.
Question: What did ancient Greeks do if someone died? What if a slave died? A family member?
Answer: During the Homeric period there was a cremation ceremony and the bones were then buried in a rock cairn. During the classical period all bodies were buried. Burial ceremonies and mourning periods were likely. Family members sometime sreceived a grave marker. This could have been a stele or a ceramic vase.
Question: Can we say that Medea's murdering of her two children is an outbreak representing all the women under sexual discrimmination and unfair treatment in ancient greek?
Answer: No, we cannot. Although the play Medea seems to be warning men not to mistreat their wives, the play is directed at the men of classical Athens and not the time of Medea. It is difficult to draw conclusions from the play about the situation of women at the time of Medea. It is also difficult to conclude that women in classical Greece were mistreated. Based on what we know know it seems that women were not treated in the best way, but in many cases the way they were treated was acceptible to them. Readers of classical literature get a skewed notion of the treatment of women because we only read the men's view. Women were not encouraged to record their experiences.
Question: What did the Greek house look like?
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Question: In medea's time, can husbands repudiate their wives as they wish , just like what jason did to medea? Is it common?
Answer: This seems to be the case. Even in Classical times this was possible. But it was not a good idea, as the play Medea suggests. The behavior of Hera suggests some of the havoc that this possibility causes. And the behavior of Clytemnestra suggests that women are not powerless in the face of this possibility. Odysseus and Penelope suggest that mutual devotion is the ideal.
Question: Was.euripides.mainly.interpretating.an.ancient.myth.in.medea.or he.was.tryin g.to.reflect.some.facts.in.his.contemporary.society?ed.in? ()
Answer: Plays were usually written for spiritual or political reasons. Their entertainment value was secondary.
Question: I know one of a Greek woman's task was clothes washing. How did they clean clothes? Did they scub them with something? Did they use something as soap? Help, I'm writing a story set in ancient Greece and I need to know the little details!
Answer: The clothes were rinsed in clear water then wrung or pounded on a rock. They were then rinsed again. Sometimes olive oil was used as soap. Scented olive oil was sometimes added to the clothes afterword to give the clothes a pleasant smell. A stream, a spring, or a spring house was used for the water.
Question: WHAT WAS DONE WITH UNWANTED BABIES
Answer: A healthy baby could be sold into slavery. An unhealty baby would be exposed to die. Exposure meant leaving the baby in a lonely place where it would die of exposure or be eaten by wild animals. But some babies that were exposed were found by humans or animals who raised them.
Question: What was the role of the "Agora" in the time of Pericles? with sacred boundaries, political religious and commercial centre of Athens
Answer: The Agora was a market and meeting place. Ship captains came to trade their load, and Farmers came to market their crops.
Question: did the greeks have aranged marriges and if so who arainged them?
Answer: Anyone could arrange the marriage, but the father of the bride had to approve it. Sometimes only the one he arranged did he approve. Sometimes the daughter arranged her own marriage, but her groom had to ask her father for her hand. Sometimes there were several wooers for a bride. In this case the Father would establish a method for deciding who was the most worthy. The father might consult the daughter as to what might be the best test.
Question: what is the correct ancient greek word (in latin characters) for someone who fetches water, is a water-bearer, or anything along those lines?
Answer: Hydrophoros. Reference on purification
Question: How old did you have to be to be a citizen?
Answer: Thirty.
Question: If women weren't allowed to be away from their homes except for specific reasons, what do you think the woman in Mark 7:24-30 (Bible) was wealthy and accounted to herself or do you think she was a window. Other than her ddesire to have her daughter healed what would make a greek woman defy her cultural norms?
Answer: This woman was not truely a Greek because Greeks had no concept of the Devil. Greek women could leave their home if they were veiled. Desperation often causes cultural norms to be defied. The Bible cannot be counted on for objective truth about the Greek culture. Rather it is a record of the success of Christian ideals.
Question: what was the daily life of a noble women in the accient times
Answer: Noble women had slaves to do most of their work. They did bear and raise their husband's children. Most of their time they spent in the courtyard of their home spinning and weaving. They may also have been involved with religious activities, including the baking of bread.
Question: What is a slaves daily lifstyle?
Answer: Drudgery from beginning to end. Slaves often went without clothes. Meals were at the same time as the master's. They slept at the foot of the master's bed on the floor.
Question: Were women considered as property in the Iliad
Answer: Yes they were. But they were not all the same kind of property. Slave women were property in the ordinary sense of a slave. Many women had a higher status than a slave but they were still a kind of property. These were the captured women. Wives had a still higher status. They were possessions but not really property to be bought, sold, or traded. They were attached to one's property since they stayed at home. Queens actually owned their property. When you married the queen you got the property. If someone killed you they got your queen and her property.
Question: What food are the greeks famous for
Answer: The Greek economy was based on wine and olives.
Question: what utensils did the acinent greek use
Answer: Knives, spits, and pot hooks.
Question: Why did women die at an earlier age than men?
Answer: In the drama Medea, Medea states that childbirth is three times as risky as going into battle. But how do you know this is true?
Question: What did the Mycenaeans farm?
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Question: distinguish between the average women and that of the members of nobility
Answer: There really was no nobility in Greece. The persons of privlege were the citizens. But in Athens, for example the citizens and all their relatives amounted to less than one quarter of the city. Another quarter of the population belong to immigrants who were free but un-represented in the government. But some of them could have been very well off. Perhaps half the population were slaves, most of whom were women. Women were more amenable to the trades, such as weaving, that were so important to the Athenian economy. You might say that the average woman was a slave while the women of privlege were wives of citizens. In this case the citizen women commanded, worked, and confined themselves to their porticoes. The slaves did all the menian work and drudgery. But in Athens, it must be remembered, everyone worked hard, and most benefited from this labor.
Question: what was daily life like for weathy women of Sparta??
Answer: They spent their time caring, supervising, commanding, negotiating, and exercising.
Question: In what way did women worship the ancient gods?
Answer: The ancient Greek gods were not really worshipped. Rather they were communicated with. Usually ancient greeks went to the gods when they had a need. They had frequent needs, such as making the fire light in the morning. A prayer to Hestia was desirable. For rain, pray to Zeus. At festivals there was libations, sacrifice, athletics, dancing, and prayers. But all was to satisfy a need. If there was no need, the gods could be forgotten.
Question: How were the lives of non-citizen women different to those of citizen women in Classcial Athens
Answer: There were two kinds of non-citizen women, slaves and free. The lives of the slaves differed markedly. They did much of the drudgery including the grinding of grain, spinning, sewing, weaving, cleaning, carrying of wastes, and carrying of water. Some of the women slaves were forced into prostitution. The citizen women commanded the slaves, did weaving as well as baking, spent most of the time taking care of their children, and could serve as a priestess. Free women could probably not serve as priestess but their lives spanned the duties of citizens and slaves.
Question: What dances did the greeks do?
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Question: What were amazons for?
Answer: Their purpose was to stimulate the imaginations of ancient writers to such an extent that they present a compelling reality, yet there is not a shread of evidence that has any rational basis. They seem to be testing our notions of reality and our abilty for historical research.
Question: what were womens rights in ancient greece
Answer: Almost everybody had no rights, especially slaves. Only a few men had rights, but they did not realize what they had. These were the men in Greece that voted as a part of the government. Later it was realize that when you vote you have rights because you control what happens to your community.
Question: Can you relate Penlope's daily life to the women of those days? Did she follow the same standards? or did she have more power?
Penelope was a queen and much more powerful than most women. There were no more powerful women in Greece and for every woman like Penelope there were perhaps ten thousand women less powerful. Yet even as a queen she was exceptionally skilled. To keep all those men at bay for that long time required exceptional skill. Even queens did not have that musch power. It is plain that most of the time her power was overridden by the men around her, if they knew what she was doing. But she kept one or two steps ahead and controlled men over which she had no claim to control. Penelope has to be regarded as an extremly extraordinary woman. Judy Cicago ranked the 1000 most significant women of all time and Penelope did not make this list, while her cousins Clytemnestra and Helen did. I doubt this is fair. Penelope was overlooked because what she did is what men hope for in a woman, while Clytemnestra and Helen are more troublesome.
Question: Compare the Atheian to Spartian Youth thougth normal daily life routines
Answer: Boys of twelve in both communities were sent to school. Some girls of twelve went to school while others worked beside their mother. At school the boys studied reading, writing, music, mathematics, and athletics. At school the girls studied music and dance. At home the Athenian girls spun and wove, while the Spartan girls toured the properties to check on the activities of slaves. The Spartan boys lived in a dorm-like atmosphere while the others lived at home. All probably took a communal meal at mid-day while only the Spartan boys took a communal meal at the end of the day. Some youngsters were accompanied to school by a slave who was responsible for guiding education.
Question: how fairly were slaves treated in ancient times?
Answer: There were many different circumstances regarding the treatment of slaves. Some slaves were smart and well-trained. These slaves were encouraged to pursue their professions with a promise of freedom if they would pay for it out of their earnings. Hetaera and blacksmiths did very well with this arrangement. Households slaves needed to be loyal to their household and so thy were often treated well and even provided a retirement for their old-age. But other slaves were not treated so well. They were given the most menial jobs and not allowed to think for themselves. Agricultural laborers and miners were worked pretty hard. Mining was a very dangerous task and many slaves died. One reason masters did not have much trouble with their slaves is that if they were bad they were sent to the mines.
Though some women worked in the mines and the fields most women slaves were household slaves or they were used in the weaving industry. A fair number were used for sex. Though very wealthy men might have sex slaves, most were used as prostitutes. A master would hire out the girls and take the money that they earned. Really popular and talented girls would be offered the opportunity to buy their freedom. But the girls that had promise as a hetaera were so expensive that several masters would have to team up to buy one. Some even became wives. The stories of sex-slavery in ancient Greece are pretty fantastic. On the one hand a man would have to deal with his wife to get access to any of his female slaves. She probably was not happy with his sexual liasons. On the other hand the desirable slaves were very expensive. Still a slave would not be able to refuse her master's advances. Uncooperative slaves ended up in the mines or dead. If a master choose to torture a slave no one could prevent it. Sexually desirable slaves did not get tortured simply to protect the investment. Most masters did not waste their time torturing undesirable slaves.
Question: My first question is if the Greeks built their homes on their own, say, using the slaves, or was there some kind of constuction company? Who took part in the construction of a house and in what ways? What was the procedure of building a house?
Answer: Housing construction requires skills and organization and so would not have been dome by slaves. There were no corporate organizations. The organizations that might this task were political, family, or social. As in the American West, people may have come to build a house. Or the larger faminly could have organized it. In Roman time the military built the houses.
First masons laid the foundation, then stone walls were built. Then carpenters built the doors, windows, upper floors, stairs, and rafters out of wood. Finally roofers laid tiles on the rafters. In some cases plumbers laid plumping though it was often done by masons.
Question: What was the procedure of making flour/bread? were there different kinds of bread?
Answer: Bread was an off-shoot of making beer, meade, or wine. The sediment of one of these drinks served as levening. First the grain was ground and mixed with water. Then levening was added and the mixed was allowed to rise. It was rolled out into flat cakes and allowed to rise again. The result was then fried or baked on a flat pan. The result was flat bread.
Question: I am especially interested in iron. How did they excavate it, could you describe a mine?
Answer: No Iron was mined in ancient Greece. Iron came from Damascus. Silver was mined in Ancient Greece. A mine was simply a whole in the ground. Slaves did the mining. It was very dangerous work and few survived. Picks were used to break up the stone. If a clump was too large for a pick many paralled holes were drilled in the clump. Very dry sticks were crammed into the stone and the sticks were soaked with water. When they swelled the rock broke. Slaves behaved in ancient Greece so they would not be sent to the mines.
Question: How did they grind grain? Did they use stone mills and how did these operate?
Answer: Stone mills were developed during the middle ages. Grain was ground between two stones: A smaller round stone and a larger flat one. "Before the first actual grinding mill came into existence, grain was merely shelled or husked by pounding. This simple kind of a "first break' was effected by spreading the grain upon a slab or block of stone and beating it with a hand stone; a subsequent development of this rude apparatus being a hollow mortar and an improved hand stone."
Question: How did they press the oil out of olives? Did they use common mills for grain and oil?
Answer: Olives were placed in a bag and pressed with a lever press.
Question: Is there any source in the Internet with pictures (sketches, of course) of how mills / oil presses / fountains might have looked like?
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Question: Did they have a system of watering the trees or were they completely dependant on rain water?
Answer: Water that drained off their roofs went into a cistern. This could be used to water trees.
Question: How did they catch fish? Did they have nets for example?
Answer: They used both hooks and nets. Some fish were probably speared.
Question: How would they put a fire out?
Answer: They used a human chain with buckets, passing buckets from hand to hand.
Question: You told me that they had to import iron, so i guess all they had to do was heat it (where?) and form it to a tool/weapon with a hammer or was there another procedure?
Answer: Most tools were imported because iron really is not very strong. In order to make tools the iron needs to me made into steel. This is done by heating the iron in a forge and hammering it. A forge involves a fire stoked with charcoal and a bellows to provide forced air.
Question: I am writing a story that begins with a girl that lives in ancient Greece. At some point, I want this girl (I'll call her Tienette) to meet a group of people in her town that consists of people of different ages. My question is this: Would it be possibly for a girl to go into a town and meet people? I have heard that women were secluded, and she is sixteen. Is there any decent reason for an unmarried sixteen year old to go into town by herself on an errand, or would this be strictly prohibited? She is not a slave or a prostitute. Also, would there even be a group of people that no one particularly likes mingling in town?
Answer: Girls of sixteen were more responsible in Ancient Greece than they are today. She may have been a married woman. If her family was poor she might go out to fetch water or to dispose of wastes. The fountain house was a common place for women of all ages to meet. They would often go early in the morning even before sunrise. This was dangerous for a young girl because she would risk being raped. In a richer family the slaves would do this task. Women of all ages would leave the home to attend festivals. Some were for everyone, while some were just for women. Festivals were very common and occurred every 5 to 10 days. Though there is much talk of women being isolated there is some indication that they went out in the streets anyway. When they did not have a proper reason for being in the streets they were veiled. In this case they were assumed to be invisible. It is entirely possible that Greek men properly reported veiled women as being absent. Because of the danger for women outside the house they would rarely leave their home alone. They usually went with their slaves or other relatives. Nausicaa even had slave girls that slept with her, one at the foot of her bed and the other just outside her door.
Question: Who is a famous Greek person that an average Athenian female could come into contact with and why?
Answer: The most likely point of contact between a female and a famous person is if the famous person comes to the female's house because of business or entertainment. If business then the famous person would come because of some need that a man of the house could satisfy through his profession or possessions. The females of the house received the patrons and entertained them while they waited. Also the men of the house would extend to others invitations to a symposium in the andron of the house. The females of the house would receive the guests and might also serve the food at the symposium. They may also provide musical and dancing entertainment but they would not compete with the hetaerae. If there was an overnight guest the female might even bathe the guest as well as well as service their room or space. Most guests would not occupy a room but would share it with other family members of the same sex.
Question: Sanitation -- Are there hard facts that Greeks had and used chamber pots to defecate in?
Answer: In the Odyssey is this passage:
"Till then in every sylvan chase renown'd, With Argus, Argus, rung the woods around; With him the youth pursued the goat or fawn, Or traced the mazy leveret o'er the lawn. Now left to man's ingratitude he lay, Unhoused, neglected in the public way; And where on heaps the rich manure was spread, Obscene with reptiles, took his sordid bed." (Odyssey BOOK XVII)
Evidently in the Palace the excrement was collected in pots and dumped by the front door in a manure pile to await a farmer to transport it to the fields in a oxcart.
There is a kylix showing a prostitute urinating into a chamber pot. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Ancient_Greece)
"lasanon is the Greek word for pot, albeit the under the bed type. A lasanophoros was a slave who had charge of the night stool. So we find that the chamber pot (lasanon) was placed under the night stool (lasana) and was removed by a slave (lasanophoros). This is from Liddell and Scott.
Question: Did royal couples share a bed/bedroom?... I need to know if Hecuba shared a bed with Priam etc.?Also What were the beds like in royal palaces and the bedrooms? I need to know :) I also need to know about an estimate for how big the Palace of Priam was?
Answer:The bed that Odysseus describes building for Penelope seems to be big enough to share. But no beds or pictures of beds that have come down to us are big enough to share when sleeping. They were large enough for the couple to have sex on however and we seem to have pictures of that. At that time most people did not have their own room, let alone their own bed. Notice that Odysseus seems to sleep on the floor as a guest in his own house when he returns from his travels. Illustrations of beds of the classical period show a cot on high legs called a klein. These beds were used in the symposium. There is every reason to believe that these are the beds royalty slept on even during the bronze age as these beds were similar to ones in ancient Egypt used by the Pharoahs. So royalty probably slept on beds in the same room or in separate rooms. But they probably did not sleep alone. At the foot of each bed a slave slept. And another slave slept at the door. This was their security.
In the Illiad VI 237 Homer mentions the palace of Priam thus "But when he was now come to the beauteous palace of Priam, adorned with polished colonnades -- and in it were fifty chambers of polished stone, built each hard by the other; therein the sons of Priam were wont to sleep beside their wedded wives; and for his daughters over against them on the opposite side within the court were twelve roofed chambers of polished stone, built each hard by the other; therein slept Priam's sons-in-law beside their chaste wives.." If each chamber were 3 meters by 4 meters then side by side they would be 150 meters at least. But the central court at Knossos is about 25 by 50 meters. The whole palace of Pylos is just 60 by 70 meters. More than likely the palace had several stories and so the rooms were stacked on top of one another apartment style. Three stories would accomplish the same task in 50 meters. Palaces of both the Mycenaeans and the Minoans had apartments surrounding a central court. Beside the bedrooms there might be meeting rooms, sanctuary rooms, and storage rooms. Food preparation was done in the court over an open fire. Most of the daughters probably did not live in the palace and the remaining ones may have shared just one room. But if each room also had three slaves then this means 250 people plus perhaps six daughters and servants for each of them and 5 for the king plus perhaps a dozen more servants in a man's quarter and a woman's quarter you have a palace of 277 souls. Notice that neither Schlieman, nor any of the other later archaeologists of recent times, has discovered anything of this magnitude in the area thought to be Troy.
Question: What was the average citizen like during Ancient Greece? (Did they have a job? What was their income?)(What were their interests?) What was the common religion back then?
Answer:Most citzens were involved with farming. In the Bronze age this was more true than in the Classical period. Even craftsmen would have an involment with farming to back up when their craft was weak. In Ancient Greece people were pretty gregarious and met frequently in the market, at the temple, or at others homes. Women worked together in the court of the houses. They also met at the fountain house or spring. In their spare time mostly they told stories or listened to them. One of the Athenian innovations was coinage. This was helpful in trade but since most activity was farming the average income of the Athenian would not be easy to determine. In spite of what we hear about the houses courts and androns the average person probably slept in a one room house with 12 or more other people.
Neither in the Bronze age nor in the Classical period was there what we would call a religion. The deities were treated as natural objects that you dealt with if you had to. There was no concept of faith or belief. People participated in cult activities for community benefit. For example, the most commonly needed deity was Hestia. If you needed a fire in the morning you had to deal with Hestia. If your coals died during the night you had to go the the local altar to Hestia where a fire was maintained to get a light. Farmers had to deal with Demeter. Craftspeople dealt with Athena. If your spring dried up you had to deal with the Nymph of the Spring. Sometimes the trick was knowing which deity to deal with. To find out you called in a seer. The seer would, hopefully, be able to get some communication that would help. A seer could use the flights of birds, the entrails of birds, or other methods to communicate with the divine. He would try to find which deity was involved and what might be done to change the situation.
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