School In Athens

... close to the ocean, and it had a decent harbor. So Athenians exchanged with other city-states to get the goods that they required. A lot of people in Athens made their clothes at home. At 18, Athenian men began their military training. After their army service, wealthy young men might study with private teachers. Unlike boys, most girls did ... from wealthy families married men chosen by their fathers. Girls from poor families often had more choice. Athenian democracy depended on having citizens prepared for whatever was to come. People in Athens thought that producing good citizens wa...

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... his works, only seven of Sophocles' plays remain fully intact. Plato was one of the most influential philosophers in Greece. Plato's real name was Aristocles, but he adopted the nickname Plato, meaning "broad shouldered," due to his physical build. Plato was born in Athens' Golden Age to an aristocratic political family. The political corruption he observed is what convinced him to not go ... committed suicide by throwing herself off of a cliff. She wrote nearly five hundred poems, and was hated for her work. Most of her poetry was destroyed, but a few were found in an Egyptian trash si...

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... 440 B.C. and made her way to Athens. 14 Aspasia's decision to leave Miletus and move to Athens was an intellectual decision because she could see that Athens would offer more opportunity and stability. History is unclear on how Aspasia obtained her education, possibly through noble upbringing or from a courtesan school, which was where the hetaerae were educated in the art of stimulating their male ... clients physical and mentally.15 Many people of the time immigrated to Athens to open up prostitution houses, to take advantage of the prosperity of the booming city. There were a ... ir...

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Raphael's School of Athens The School of Athens is a fresco by Raphael that sits in the Vatican. This fresco is probably the most known and acclaimed work by Raphael. It stands opposite from another famous fresco done by Raphael, La Disputa. This beautiful artwork shows many thinkers during that time. The school depicted commands awe much as a cathedral does. The fresco appears alive by the brilliance of ... , since the people themselves are just a bunch of people talking. It was the school itself that is being presented. But the funny thing is that the school itself never existed. The fresco ...

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... was charged. Many cases a husband did not divorce his wife to maintain access to her dowry. No dowry was returned if the wife committed adultery. Probably the most emancipated women in Athens and other city-states were the hetaerae or courtesans. While usually starting their life as a slave or a dowry-less maiden, with good luck, intelligence and the right patron, ... , and eventually became his wife. They had a son, who was granted citizenship after a wavering of the law that disallowed this in children not born in Athens. Aspasia was born in western Asia Minor in Miletus, coming to Ath...

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... same education as men, including physical education. Women were free to leave their homes without fear of being labeled as a prostitute or a slave, and they could fulfill strong roles in their society. In Athens the women were mostly ignored except for the purpose of breeding. Most Athenian philosophers believed that women had strong emotions and weak minds, so of course they had to ... be protected from themselves and prevented from harming others. Guardianship was the system developed to deal with this perceived quality in women. Every woman in Athens had a kyrios (guardian) who was e...

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... army even though they had to buy their own equipment. Below the citizens were the Metics, who made up 25% of the population. They were the resident aliens living in Athens and were usually traders. Of course at the bottom came the slaves who made up 35% of the population. Clearly the societal structure of these two poleis is very similar. ... between these two poleis. The forming of Sparta's military state changed the Spartan way of life. At the tender age of seven, all Spartan males entered a military school. During thirteen years of harsh training, the young men learned toughness, di...

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... were different, especially when comparing Sparta and Athens, two Greek places with very different people, government, and education. In Athens, students were taught from both their homes and schools2. Education was generally a privilege2. Until seven, children would be taught by male slaves or mothers, afterwards, they were sent to a primary school in the neighborhood or a private school2. After ... that, boys often went to engage in higher education2. The purpose of education ... rhetoric, philosophy, astronomy, public speaking, reading, writing, or math2. After finishing this primary/p...

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... their own equipment. Below the citizens were the Metics, who made up 25% of the population. They were the resident aliens living in Athens and were usually traders. Of course at the bottom came the slaves who made up 35% of the population. Clearly the societal structure ... The forming of Sparta's military state changed the Spartan way of life. At the tender age of seven, all Spartan males entered a military school. During thirteen years of harsh training, the young men learned toughness, discipline, endurance of pain, and survival skills. Finally, at age twenty ... . Second the constitu...

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... the Spartan army had penetrated deeply into the city walls, and the Athenians only just managed to man the defences in time. In this desperate time of Athens, Aristophanes aims to advise what could be done to save this dying city. Aristophanes stresses unity- for instance, near ... for best of Athens in the past be stripped off their citizenship? The city will be saved if these men were forgiven. He also wanted to emphasise the importance of theatre to the audience. This is shown in the quote from The Frogs, "Boys have school masters to teach ... them. Adults have poets." When Dionysus ...

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