Presentations

Yesterday in West Civ, we started to present on our topics we had. We didn't get to all of them because it took longer to present for the first teams but here are my notes!

Athens, Sparta and the Peloponnesian War:
Athens:
-capital of Greece
-name came from the god of Athena

Athenian Social Structure:
-aristocrats: large estates

Athenian Diet:
-two means a day, ate simply

Boys Education
-reading, writing, math
-music, poetry, sports, gymnastics (5-14 some from 5-18 for)

Women Education:
-where focused more on household
-husbands were chosen for them.

Weapons
-Doru, Sauroter, Xiphons

Sparta
-Lacedaemon: means "self-restrained"
-they were forced to be in the military

Top Class
-Spartiates, Women

Middle Class
-Farmers, wanderers

Lower Class
-slaves (obviously)

Spartan Males
-forced to be in the military until they were 60 (ages 7-60)
-women were "borrowed" and had affair with other men other then their husbands. then would also have children with them.

-Sparta had the most deadliest weapons
-Kopis: most feared weapon in Sparta

Peloponnesia War
-started - April 4th
-Sparta won


Homer
-Born: 800 BC in Smyrna, Turkey
-told stories
-brought Greeks out of the Dark Ages
-some people think he's one person, a group of people and someone who wasn't blind.
-the Odyssey ad Iliad were the most famous stories about Odysseus about Achilles
-died in 701 BC