ANCIENT ATHENS UNIT EXAM

What are the 4 classes of society in ancient Athens?

• Free Male Citizens, Male Metics, Free Women & Slaves.

• Free Citizens, Freed Female Metics, Free Women & Slaves.

• Citizens, Male Metics, Female Metics, Slaves.

• Free Male Citizens, Metics, Servants, Slaves

Ancient Athens was a society with

High Social Stratification

What is Social Stratification?

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• An Unequal Society

• A society that puts people into groups based on: race, religion, gender, wealth, education, power, etc.

• Group behaviour that can be: aggressive, mutualistic, cooperative, or paternal.

• Collective interacting populations.

Misogyny means:

• A dislike, fear, or hostility towards foreigners, or people from different cultures

• A social system where men hold primary power and roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

• A hatred, dislike, distrust, &/or prejudice against women.

• The process of being naturalized into a culture or system.

Xenophobia means...

• A dislike, fear, or hostility towards foreigners, or people from different cultures.

• A social system where men hold primary power and roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

• The process of being naturalized into a culture or system.

• A hatred, dislike, distrust, &/or prejudice against women.

Free Women in ancient Athens...

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• Free Women were never considered true adults.

• Free women were generally not allowed in public.

• Free women were expected to: cook, clean, spin, weave, keep accounts, and handle servants.

• Free women were always under the control of their father or husband.

Daughters of Free Male Citizens

in ancient Athens...

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• Daughters of free men were not educated.

• They stayed at-home to learn how to become wives & mothers until they were married at age 14, usually to a 30-year old male citizen.

• Shortly after marriage wives were expected to have a baby.

• They studied the sling, lyre music, and horseback riding.

Free Male Citizens in ancient Athens...

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• Free men were at home for meals & sleeping, but were otherwise out of the house enjoying life.

• Men often hosted dinner parties at their home (which women could not attend).

• Only they could vote or participate in politics.

• Large parks offered free male citizen places to exercise, bathe, talk, read, or listen to musicians.

Ancient Athenian Metics

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• About half of the population makes up this group.

• They are never allowed to become full citizens of the Athens.

• They could not own property

• They could not vote or be elected.

Ancient Athenian Metics

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• They had to pay taxes

• They were immigrants, the children of immigrants, and former slaves.

• Metics held lower social status because of being immigrants or sons of immigrants rather than wealth.

• By age seven boys began attending school.

Sons of Free Citizen in ancient Athens

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• By age seven boys began attending school.

• At school they memorized plays, learned math, how to read, to write, and play music on the lyre.

• By age 18 all boys were expected to attend military school.

• Many cities required free young men to reach the age of 30 before they participated in politics and married.