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Ancient Greece Worksheet
chapter seven, pp. 135-146

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1. Women in Athens exercised power in private life through their central role in the ________. They exercised power in public life through their central role in __________. They were absent from _________.
2. Euripides has his heroine, Melanippe, say that male chauvinism “is no more than the twanging of a ___________ without an _________.”
3. Under Athenian democracy, women could control _________, even _______ through _________ and _________. Women could not inherit property if they had _________, but one of ____ households had all girls.
4. Upper class Athenian women were expected to avoid frequent or close contact with me outside her ______ or circle of _______. They were expected to spend most of their time at _______ or with _______ friends.
5. Men outside the family were banned from enter rooms designated as ________ space.
6. One room in the house was set aside as the men’s ________ room, where he could entertain male ___________.
7. Poor women set up _____ to sell various items. Poor men worked as laborers in ___________ or __________ or on _____________ projects.
8. A woman with servants who answered the door by herself was __________.
9. Well-to-do women went out for _________ festivals, __________, __________ at the houses of relatives or friends, and trips to ________ to buy shoes or other articles.
10. Women rich enough not to have to work maintained very _____ complexions. Women used powdered white ______ to give themselves the desired look.
11. Athenians believed that having ______ children brought special honor to a woman. They brought ______ to their parents.
12. Men, on the other hand, could have physical relationships with female _______ and various classes of __________. Members of the elite group were known as ____________.
13. Formal _________ did not exist in ancient Greece, although the wealthy were able to afford the services of private _______ for their children.
14. Physical ________ was viewed as so important for men that the city-state provided open-air ________ facilities for daily workouts. They were called ____________.
15. Women often learned to __________, ___________, and do simple _________________.
16. The ________ rate among those other than the well-to-do was quite low. Many poor Greeks could do no more than sign their _____________. This wasn’t a problem because most of the communication was ______, rather than written.
17. The most important skill a young man could acquire was the ability to speak ______________ in public. The youngster would learn this skill by spending time in the company of _______ men.
18. The ____________, self-proclaimed teachers, offered more organized instruction in public speaking and argumentation. They were _________ and even ________ by many traditionally-minded men. These new teachers also offered to compose _________ for hefty fees. The most famous teacher was ____________, who was ________ concerning the existence of the gods and denied that there was an absolute standard of ___________. He wrote famously, “_______ is the measure of all things.” Laws, he taught, should be obeyed because it was _________ for men to live by them.
19. _______ argued that the sun was nothing more than a flaming rock, not a god.
20. __________ and his student, ______________, proposed an ______ theory of matter. In other words, everything consisted of tiny, invisible particles in eternal ________. Random ________ caused them to combine and recombine.
21. Some Greeks believed that the new currents in science and philosophy would _______ the gods and erode the divine ____________.
22. ________ of Miletus wrote a treatise criticizing Greek mythology.
23. Historians such as __________ used a critical approach to historical evidence as they wrote.
24. Greek medicine was assisted by _________, the most famous of all Greek doctors. He believed that medicine should note be based on ________ and ________, but on careful ______________. Still, various cults, such as that of the god _________, offered healing to practitioners.

Short answer

1. Discuss the Athenian law regarding heiresses.









2. What did the Sophists do, and what was their reputation? What were two controversial views which sophists taught?