HISTORY 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Wet Nurse, Epikleros, Aulos
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Children, especially first born, named after paternal grandfatther, second child after maternal grandfather and then more freedom in naming. Women bore an average of 4. 3 children, of whom 2. 7 survived. With the exception of spartan girls and boys, little is know about the life of children. Children of wealthy raised by slave nurses and nannies. Breast fed by mothers or wet nurse (some clay feeding bottles found) Poor children likely started working the land at a very early age. Participated in family religious activities, especially performing sacrafices. School only for the wealthy, namely boys. Lots of visual depictions of children playing with balls, hoops, tops, dolls. Children played runaway slaves that had to be caught. Birds, dogs (hunting dogs), rabbits, cats, monkeys. Men married at 30 years of age to girls 15 or older. Marriage was the foundation of the oikos/family.
