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Sept. 17/18
HW: Finish Women in the Ancient World
Please get out your Cicero packetCicero and Roman Contributions to
Democracy, Pg. 21A
What Quotes did you find for Part 5?
All citizens have the right to equal treatment under the law.
A person is innocent until proven guilty.
Accusers need to have proof a law has been broken before they
make an accusation.
Any law that seems unreasonable or very unfair can be set
aside.
Please add to pg. 20A :
You will be adding to this page over the next two weeks… Don’t lose it!
Key Rights
Right to be innocent until proven
guilty
Right to Habeus Corpus (evidence of
wrongdoing before accusation)
Definition
People are assumed innocent until
they are proven guilty, not guilty until
proven innocent
Habeus Corpus means “to have the
body” and it means you have to have
evidence a crime has occurred before
you can accuse someone of breaking
the law (ie: You have to have a dead
body before you accuse someone of
murder.)
Please add these to Reading
Strategies Pg. 15A
Break Down- Break a compound word down into its
component parts to see if you can read them to find out
what the word means. This works well for prefixes and
suffixes too.
Numbering Lists- When a text gives a long list of
information all related to the same idea, number the
items in a list so you know they all go together, but are
also parts of a whole.
Read Out Loud- Sometimes you just need to hear how a
sentence sounds to make sense of it. Try reading a
difficult passage out loud so you see it AND hear it.
Women in the
Ancient World
What do you already know about
women in the ancient world?
What were their lives like?
What jobs did they do in society?
What rights did they have?
Do you think the rights we have
been talking about from Greece
and Rome applied to women?
Pg. 22A-D: Women in the
Ancient World
Please get a Women in the Ancient World
Handout and a Blue Packet (both 1 per
person)
Lysistrata
Source: The following is an excerpt from
the play Lysistrata, written by the male
Athenian playwright Aristophanes in 411
BCE. The plot of the play centers on the
Athenian woman Lysistrata leading a sex
strike by wives in order to get their
husbands to end the destructive
Peloponnesian War
LYSISTRATA: All of you women:
come and repeat after me: I will
have nothing to do with my
husband or my lover
WOMEN: I will have nothing to do
with my husband or my lover
LYSISTRATA: Although he might
come to me begging for it (sex)
WOMEN: Though he come to me
begging for it. Oh, Lysistrata!
This is killing me!
LYSISTRATA: I will stay in my
house untouchable
WOMEN: I will stay in my house
untouchable
LYSISTRATA: In my thinnest
saffron silk dress
WOMEN: In my thinnest saffron silk
dress
LYSISTRATA: And make him long for
me
WOMEN: And make him long for me
LYSISTRATA: I will not give myself to
him
WOMEN: I will not give myself to him
LYSISTRATA: And if he forces
himself on me
WOMEN: And if he forces himself on
me
LYSISTRATA: I will be as cold as ice
and never move
WOMEN: I will be as cold as ice and
never move
LYSISTRATA: You have all sworn?
WOMEN: We have.
Guiding Questions
Source: Who wrote this play? What is his gender?
Close Reading: How does the author depict women
protesting the Peloponnesian War?
Analyze: Based on this, what role do women seem to have in
ancient Greek society?
Document A
Read Document A on Athenian Women and
answer the questions on your handout.
Thinking Critically: Based on this document,
what role do you think women had in
ancient Athens?
Document B
Read Document B on Spartan Women and
answer the questions on your handout.
Thinking Critically: How do you think the role
of women in ancient Sparta was different
from ancient Athens? How do you think it
was similar? Explain
Document C
Read Document C on a Greek
understanding of Egyptian Women
Thinking Critically: Do you trust Herodotus’
description of Egypt? Why might he be
telling the truth? Why might he be
exaggerating?
Document D
Read Document D, a secondary source
about women in Ancient Egypt and answer
the questions on your handout.
Thinking Critically: Based on the information
in this document, why might Herodotus
(Document C) have thought Egyptian
society was so strange?