CLA 2103 : Periclean Athens March 4.docx
11 Jul 2014
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Demography: average for men was 45, average for women was 36. 2, average women bore 4. 3 children, only 2 would survive. Infant/child mortality was extremely high: men married around 30, women at 15. Death: common for women to die in childbirth, men in battle dead warriors usually buried on home soil. Funeral: dead body washed by women and dressed in white, laid on bed female family members tore hair, scratched cheeks and sang laments hired professional mourners to follow funeral procession dead were either cremated or inhumed: kerameikos cemetery. Trade and commerce: athens had a huge empire, large and varied, pirate problem had been resolved by cimon, traded its own produce, wine. Oil, pottery for hides, hemp, fish, wax, cattle, grain, timber, slaves: athenian pottery found throughout the mediterranean. Metics: often wealthy, but could not own land land legally (because they were not citizens)
