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Many activities men had was politics, arts and crafts, construction, agriculture, sea- faring, manufacturing and trade. Agriculture was the most popular one. Viturally no women had no political of any kind and were controled by men at nearly every stage of there lives. Among the Greeks, teenage and young men became very close friends. Girls from a rich family got married younger, and girls from a poor family got married a little older. When they were young they did not have much to chose about who they were going to marry. By the fourth century all 18 year old males, spent two years in a gymnaism, a state school devoted to the overall physical and intellectual development of a young men.
The Greeks were deeply religious people. They worshipped many gods who appear to have human form yet were endowed with superhuman strength and ageless beauty. Votives were gifts to the gods by their worshippers. Sacrifices were also gifts to the god. Olny the very rich could afford to train horses and to hire the riders and drivers for horse and chariot races. According to the homeric belief, when a person died, his or her vital breath or psyche left the body to enter the palace of hades, king of the dead. If I had to bo one of these sociteies i would rather be one of the men. I would pick the men because they seem to have control of their lives and some freedom. |
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