• Managed the house• Poor women did different work• Were not allowed in political

situations• Taught to be good wives

Different kinds of crops

Different animals used

Harvested in Spring and planted in Fall

Major age difference between husband and wifeArranged marriages Marriage was expected

•Houses were normally one floor

•Women stayed inside

•Different kinds of pets

• Started school at early hours

• Wealthy had special privileges

• Only boys went to school

To understand our own daily life by seeing where some habits and customs come

from

Bibliography• Garland, Robert. Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks. Westport: Greenwood

Press, 1998. Print.• Hunt, Lynn, et al. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures.

Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005. Print.• Nardo, Don. The Ancient Greeks. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2001. Print.• Salisburg, Joyce. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life. Westport:

Greenwood Press, 2004. Print.• Shepard, E.J.. Ancient Athens. Hong Kong: Longhorn Group Limited,

1967. Print.• Steele, Valerie. Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Detroit:

Thompson Gale, 2005. Print.• Accessed October 19, 2009. <

http://carlos.mroy.edu/ODYSSEY/Teachers/11/Greek_lesson-plan/Greek_coins.pdf>

Ancient Greek Mythology and

ReligionAmarin Young

How were the Greeks religious?

• Greek city-states officially religious• Polytheistic• Each city-state had specific

god/goddess as its guardian

What is mythology?

• “Myth” derives from the Greek word “mythos,” meaning spoken or written story

• Used to record history or explain aspects of the universe

• Greeks told and retold stories often based on real people and events

Story of Creation• Started with Chaos, who gave birth

to Night and Erebus• Eros sprang and made light• Gaea became Earth and Uranus the

spirit of the heavens • Gaea and Uranus had many

monstrous children

Story of Creation• Gaea loved all her children, Uranus

hid the ugly ones he hated• Gaea plotted to rebel with Cronos

and some of the other Titans• Cronos trapped Uranus in the

underworld with Tartarus

• Cronos assumed leadership and married Rhea (another Titan)

• Cronos feared rebellion from his children, so he ate them

• Rhea hid Zeus on Crete, Gaea and Zeus fed Cronos and made him vomit the children

Battle for the Universe

Battle for the Universe

• Zeus, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon fought Cronos and most of the other Titans

• Zeus and his siblings won and cast Cronos and the Titans into the underworld

The Gods on Olympus

• Zeus• Hera • Aphrodite • Apollo • Ares• Artemis

• Athena• Demeter• Dionysus• Hephaestus• Hermes• Poseidon

How did mythology affect religion?

•Mythology gave Greeks main belief that gods sent good and bad into the world, humans must honor the gods to receive blessings

•Morals taken from myths about the gods set standards for behavior

How did religion affect life?• Part of Greek life was honoring

gods with:Sacrifices (sheep, cattle, libations, etc.)Festivals and dancingTemplesPrayer

• Beliefs about the gods influenced marriage, war

Bibliography1) Hunt, Lynn, et al. The Making of the West: People and

Cultures. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005. Print.2) Nardo, Don. Greek and Roman Mythology. San Diego:

Lucent Books, 1998. 3) Hemingway, Colette, and Sean Hemingway. “Greek

Gods and Religious Practices.” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2003. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grlg/hd_grlg.htm

4) Pinsent, John. Greek Mythology. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1982.

5) “Olympian Gods.” World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2009. Web. 20 October 2009. http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com.

• Philosophy is the study devoted to the systematic examination of basic concepts suck as truth, existence, reality, etc.

• The literal translation means ‘love of wisdom’

• Philosophy began with pre-socratic thinkers in the 7th and 6th period such as… XenophanesPy

thagoras

• Began in Ionia, specifically in Miletus.• The city was very large so people

had time to just think.

• Philosophers searched for the origin and nature of the universe.

Ideas like:• Rationalism- give reasons for conclusions and persuade

others by arguments based on evidence• Subjectivism- human institution and values are only

matters of convention custom, or law and not creations of nature, since truth is subjective speakers should be able to argue either side of a question.

• Dualism- separation between spiritual and physical beings

…were ideas developed from ancient Greek philosophy

• Thales and Anaximarder Laws of nature control the world• PythagorasNumerical relationships explain the world• XenophanesGods have not revealed all• Protagorassophist-‘men of wisdom’ they taught new skills of

persuasion in speaking and new ways of thinking about philosophy and religion

• Most famous philosopher of the Golden Age• Not a sophist, he didn’t offer courses or accept

pay• Fought against the idea that justice should be

equated with power• Socratic Method is to lead people to draw

conclusions in response to his probing questions and refutation of their assumptions

• In 399 BC he was executed by the Athenians because his ideas were so controversial and because of the post-war tension from the Peloponnesian War. He was charged with impiety.

• Plato was taught by Socrates• Believed that human reason and

knowledge should be perfected for betterment of the soul.

• Thought that philosophers should rule

• Established the Academy in 387 BC

• 4th century Philosopher • Student at Plato’s Academy

for 20 years• Tutored Alexander the Great• 336 BC founded his school

the Lyceum • Was later charged with

impiety and fled Greece

• Philosophers changed how the Greeks thought

• They changed the belief of Gods controlling everyday events to laws of nature as well as how to be a better person

• These changes didn’t happen over night though, their ideas were sometimes rejected and sometimes accepted

• Their new ideas and views changed how future people thought and what they believed

Hunt, Lynn et al. The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s 2005. Print.

Schlager, Neil. Science and its times: Understanding the social significance of scientific Discovery. Vol 1. Print. Furmington Hills: The Gale Group, 2001.

Stockdale, Nancy. “Plato” World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2009. Web. 18 Oct. 2009. http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com

"Athens and Sparta (Overview)." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2009. Web. 25 Oct. 2009. <http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com>.