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DINNER
In ancient Greece dinner was often spent with ______________ who would have their _______________
removed and feet washed by slaves. After the main course which was usually _________ or _________. If
the family was rich, dessert would be eaten. One of the Greeks’ favorite desserts was __________________.
After dessert they would ____________, ____________, and play games.
WORK
Ancient Greeks were usually ____________ or ____________________ who sold their goods at the
marketplace or ___________. Name two things that you might over-hear at the agora. __________________
____________________________________________________________ The Greeks exported things like
_________, ______, ________, _____________, ________________, and works of _______. They had to
import things like ________, ______________, _____________ goods, and __________.
____________ or foreigners living in Athens were often _________________, ________________,
_______________, or ______________. Most of the difficult work was done by ___________ who were
often ________________ of war. They worked as _______________ in the home, _______________ in
shops, _______________, business _______________, or in slave __________ at the state-owned ________
mines. During the Golden Age of Athens about _____________ people were slaves. Slaves and metics were
needed so that citizens could spend their time running the ___________________, conducting or training for
_______, _____________, exercising in the _________________, or ________________ about life.
HOMES
Most citizens lived in homes built close together on ___________ streets. These homes were made of
______-_______ bricks. The rooms faced a courtyard where there was usually an ________ to their family
god. These houses had ______________ with shudders on the second floor. The houses had very _________
furniture inside.
FAMILY
Like many other civilizations that we have studied, Greek homes had ________________ families living in
them. Athenian women rarely ever left their ___________. Their main job was to manage the ____________
which meant _______________ the kids, keeping the ___________ in line, and managing the money.
EDUCATION
Athenian law forced parents to educate their sons but did not provide public _______________. Therefore,
boys went to _______________ school from age ____ to ____. There they learned _______________,
_____________, ________________, music, and _______________. Gymnastics was very important
because citizens needed _____________________. Gymnastics included _______________,
_________________, using the ______, and using the ____________. Girls stayed at __________ where
they learned from their mothers or slaves. They were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, as well as how
to ________ and weave, dance, sing, and play an instrument. At eighteen, young men became
______________. They learned ___________, ________________, ___________________, and
________________. Rhetoric is the art of ______________ and _______________ effectively. At twentyone a Greek citizen could choose to continue his education by hiring a __________________ or traveling
teacher. A young man would learn rhetoric, grammar, ____________, and __________________ at this
time. Sometimes, if his family wasn’t wealthy, the youngster would have to work at night in order to pay for
this ________________.
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
In the area of astronomy there were many famous Greeks. Many of them lived in the Egyptian center of
learning and culture __________________. ____________________ found a way to estimate the
circumference of the earth. ___________________ believed that the earth revolves around the sun.
_______________ on the other hand believed that the earth was the center.
Geometry was the specialty of ______________. His famous book _________________ is still used
worldwide today. ___________________ explained the lever and developed the compound ____________.
________________ was a female astronomer and mathematician.
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PHILOSOPHERS
Philosopher means “lover of ________________.” One of the first and greatest philosophers was
_________________ who had many followers, one of whom was ____________. He would walk around the
____________ in Athens asking questions to anyone around him. His influence may have helped the brilliant
Plato choose philosophy over ___________ and ________________ as a career choice. Perhaps he decided
after contemplating Socrates’ famous line “_________ _____________.” Since Socrates did not write, much
of what we know about him comes from Plato’s ___________________ which were conversations between
Socrates and others. From these writings the _____________ ____________ of questioning has evolved. In
_____ B.C., Socrates was tried and sentenced to death for teaching the __________ to think and question too
much. At the trial Socrates put on no real defense and refused to give in to earn his freedom. He could have
brought up the fact that Athens had the concept of freedom of ____________. Secondly, he could have
admitted to the wrongdoing and agree to live out the rest of his life outside of Athens. Thirdly, there is much
evidence that he could have escaped captivity with the help of his many friends and students. Above
everything though, Socrates prided himself in being an _________________ and refused to cave in. He
drank poisoned _____________ as his punishment. In about _____ B.C., Plato founded the great
_______________ which would be the center of learning in Greece for about ______ years. It was named
after the hero, _________________ whose land it was built upon. One of Plato’s dialogues studied there was
______ ______________ which was about the ideal society and government in Plato’s mind. His ideas have
greatly influenced the world since. The other important subject studied there was _______________. Plato’s
most famous student there was _________________ who developed ___________ or scientific reasoning.
He also added a step to the ___________________ _______________ which the Greek scientist, _________
created. Aristotle also started to _______________ plants and animals according to their similarities. He also
created the logic problem, the ____________________.
GREEK THEATER
Athens was the home to the great theater of ____________________. Theater began as a _______________
ceremony in honor of this god of wine and merriment. Men dressed as ________ would _________ and
____________. The first actor to speak on stage was probably _____________ from whose name we get the
modern term for an actor. By this time the theater was an extremely important part of every Athenian’s life.
__________________ was allowed to come to the open-air theater or _____________________ which was
at the base of the ___________________. Wealthy Athenians would _____________ the production of the
plays. Even the ______ would get in for free to see the plays that would go from dawn to dusk. The festival
and competitions would sometimes last an entire ________. Inside the theater, the first few rows had
___________ chairs for special dignitaries. The rest of the 20,000 capacity theater was filled with stone
_______ in the shape of a ______-__________. The acoustics in some of the theaters was so good that it is
said you could hear a _______ if it was dropped on stage.
Only ________ were allowed to play parts in the plays. They wore ________ which showed the ________,
_________, and _______ of their character. They also had funnel-shaped mouths so __________________.
There were two types of plays. In the morning there was a ________________ which literally means
“________ _________”. These were plays usually about some past myth in which a hero or god is faced
with a terrible ________________. They sometimes had a happy ending but usually not. They were intended
to teach citizens how to live in a ____________ way.
Athens had three very famous tragedy writers during the Golden Age. Some of their works are still being
performed in theaters worldwide. __________________ or the father of tragedy wrote Orestia. He also
fought in the ____________ Wars. Sophocles was a friend of the very powerful ________________. He
wrote _____________ which is about a sister’s predicament. When Sophocles died in _______ B.C. he was
90 years old. Euripides was the third famous playwright of the era. He wrote ____ _________ ____
_______. He also died in _____ B.C. In the afternoon a ____________ was performed. Why do you think
they did the tragedy in the morning and comedy in the afternoon?
_________________________________________ The most famous writer of comedies was
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____________________ who usually poked fun at leaders like _________________ or philosophers like
____________________.
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