Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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distinctly manifest than inthe position of woman and the contribution of the familyto society. The Greeks thought of marriage chiefly as ameans of raising up citizens for the state; an interestingillustration of this idea is seen in the law introduced inPericless time, that only he could be accepted as a citizenwhose father and mother were Athenians by blood. Nat-urally, girls were not as desirable as boys, and little atten-tion was paid to them beyond keeping them indoors. The Education, boy, howcvcr, was very carefully reared. Grammar,music and gymnastics were the three parts of his educa-tion. By the first was meant the learning of his own lan-guage and the study of Homer and the other early poets,not merely as a means of training in forms of speech, butas sources of knowledge about life, duty and religion. Inmusic, he was taught how to sing, and to play on musicalinstruments. Gymnastics included running and wrest-ling, practice in the use of weapons, riding and other •3.2 .>
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QM<^OH WH (X, O oo u < H Daily Life of an Athenian 147 similar exercises for the finest bodily development andskill in arms. i8o. Greek society then was chiefly a society of men The House,whose main interests lay in public life. The house, forexample, was ordinarily small and unattractive. It faceddirectly on the street, often with no opening except thedoor which swung outward, a fact suggestive of the prefer-ence of the Greek for the open air. The womens apart-ments were separate and secluded. Indeed, the houseserved the Greek chiefly for sleeping purposes, the storingof his goods and the keeping of his household. From it Daily Life,he sallied out very early in the morning, after a taste ofwine and bread, to meet his friends, or engage in publicbusiness in the assembly or elsewhere. Toward the mid-dle of the day he took breakfast or lounged about andgossiped in the public walks or porticoes. The gymna-sium occupied him in the afternoon as a place of exerciseor of intercourse wi

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