AR104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Euripides, Satyr Play, Boeotia
23 Sep 2013
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Girls: mother was a role model, no formal education, learn enough to run household, can play instruments. Boys: ages 6-14 taken by paidagogos (leader of children) to grammatistes (schoolmaster, music taught by kitharistes. Bronze stylus use to write on tablets. Boys: athletics taught by paidotribes in palaistra (wrestling school, if higher education desired, parents hired a sophist (itin errant, non-athenian teacher) who taught. Rhetoric (art of persuasion in speaking: age 18: enrolled in father"s deme (village) 18-20: served in the ephebeia (youth corps) Boys: raised in agoge from age 7, divided into age groups supervised by paidonomas, from age 12 focused on military activities, lived in barracks until 30. Doric peplos popular in archaic period. In classical period: style changes in athens to the ionic chiton. Chlamys cloak worn by men; also felt hat petasos. Based on cereals, olive oil and wine. Corinthian amphora c. 500 bce used for transporting wine. Kingdom of hades (god of the underworld)
