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Daily Life of Ancient Greece

     Did you know that as civilized as the Greeks were, they didn't allow girls to go to school?  The boys went to school when they were six years old.  When the girls were older, they got married and most of them would stay at home.  The men would go to work.  The women in Ancient Greece were very advanced in many areas.  The daily life of women was that they had to stay home and teach the girls how to weave and spin.  If the family was wealthy they usually had slaves.  A lot of slaves didn't have as much as freedom as others.

    The households were big with a lot of things in it like a courtyard, atrium, study, kitchen, bedroom (s), and a dining room.  All those were in a wealthy and not so wealthy family's house.  Some households didn't even have bathrooms.

    The women of the house took care of the slaves.  The slaves had to do     what the people of the house told them to do.  The slaves did a lot of work throughout the city-states of Greece.  The man and women would have their  own slaves.

    Greek woman spun thread and wove it into cloth as their job.  They didn't do it because they had to, they had to stay home and do something so they wove and spun cloth.

    The men went to circuses.  They would just see all of the action or fight in it.  The people would fight until they died.  For a lot a people it looked great.  For some kids it seemed like fun.  For some it didn't seem good at all.

   The boys went to school when they were six years.  The boy's were very smart and knew a lot of things because they went to school.  The girls didn't go to school because they were taught at home by their mother or by a slave but not most likely. They stayed home and their mom taught them how to weave and how to spin.

    There are a lot of things women could not do back then.  For example, they couldn't vote or own property.  The women would run the house and the family.  They had to take care of the slaves.  Women didn't have as much as freedom as their husbands, sons, and fathers that took it for granted.

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