Private Life: Women & Slaves & Edu

Question 1

How were women treated in Athens

Answer 1

Secluded and had very private lives
Little to no education
Only educated on the duties of a housewife

Question 2

What did the law say of divorces

Answer 2

The husband must return the prios (dowry) or pay 18 %

Question 3

What were the duties of the woman

Answer 3

General supervision of the household & its belongings
Setting the female slaves to their tasks, usually spinning and weaving
Raising and educating her children

Question 4

How were women in Sparta treated

Answer 4

Very well, had many freedoms, participated in athletic contests with men

Question 5

Helots of Sparta

Answer 5

A form of serfdom where the serf possessed certain rights in relation to the master

Question 6

What could not be done to a helot of Sparta

Answer 6

Neither kill nor sell

Question 7

Perioeci

Answer 7

The status of a freed Helot

Question 8

What were two other serf systems

Answer 8

Thessaly- penestai

Crete- klarotai

Question 9

What was the average cost of a slave

Answer 9

2 minae

Question 10

What personal rights did a slave not have

Answer 10

Could not own property and savings belonged to master

Question 11

Under the law/ in court, what could a slave not do

Answer 11

Could not be parties to a law-suit and could not admit evidence unless under torture

Question 12

Metoikoi

Answer 12

Resident Aliens

Question 13

Prostates

Answer 13

Patron of slaves that have been freed

Question 14

Up to what age did all children stay home

Answer 14

At 7

Question 15

Who took care of the children for their first 7 or so years

Answer 15

The mother

Sometimes a slave nurse, trophos

Question 16

Trophos

Answer 16

Slave nurse

Question 17

Paidagogos

Answer 17

Slave who accompanied boys to school

Question 18

What was the rule for education

Answer 18

Neither supervised nor endowed by the state

Question 19

What were the two main branches of education

Answer 19

Musike

Gymnastike

Question 20

Musike

Answer 20

Cultural or intellectual training

Question 21

Gymnastike

Answer 21

Gymnastics

Physical training

Question 22

Grammatistes

Answer 22

Elementary teacher who taught reading and writing (Grammata)

Question 23

Grammata

Answer 23

Reading or writing

Question 24

What was first mastered in reading

Answer 24

The names and shapes of letters

Question 25

What was the second thing learned in reading

Answer 25

Combinations of the letters in syllables

Question 26

How was writing taught

Answer 26

By following lines drawn by the teacher with a stylus/stick on a tablet (graphis/pinas-deltos) smeared with wax

Question 27

Graphis/graphidion

Answer 27

A stick or stylus like object used to write on a tablet

Question 28

Pinas/deltos

Answer 28

A tablet smeared with wax used to learn writing

Question 29

Abas/abakion

Answer 29

An object similar to an abacus used to teach arithmetic

Question 30

Kitharistes

Answer 30

Teacher who taught boys to sing

Question 31

What was the less favored instrument compared to the lyre

Answer 31

The flute(aulos)

Question 32

What was the attitude towards music

Answer 32

The Greeks laid great stress on the moral effects of music, and distinguished certain keys /modes as more or less reputable according to the supposed nature of their influence on the temper and character.

Question 33

Dorian mode

Answer 33

Manly and warlike

Question 34

Lydian mode

Answer 34

Soft and feminine

Question 35

Phrygian mode

Answer 35

Wild and orgiastic

Question 36

Paidotribes

Answer 36

Teacher of gymnastics- taught PT at the palaistra

Question 37

What were some typical exercises at the palaistra

Answer 37

Wrestling, running, jumping, throwing the discus and spear

Question 38

At what age did young men enroll in the ephebi

Answer 38

18

Question 39

Ephebi

Answer 39

Military, military training

Question 40

Aulos

Answer 40

Flute