Saturday, March 21, 2015

Presentations

In class, we started presenting.  Caitlyn, Trish and Rosemary went first.  Their presentation was about Athens, Sparta, and the Peloponnesian War.  I wrote a few notes from their presentation:

Athens
  • capital of Greece
  • Athenian diet: 2 meals a day
  • light lunch
  • Boys education: taught reading, writing, mathematics, music, poetry, sports, and gymnastics
  • women's job mostly focused inside of the house
  • weapons:
    • Doru - spear
    • Saurator - spearheads
    •  Xiphos
Sparta
  • women in class - unusual for Greece
  • boys start learning to fight at age 7
  •  men forced to be a soldier
  • full-time soldiers until they were 60
  • women had most freedom
  • they were shared with other men - had babies with them
  • wives were in charge
  • had deadliest weapons
  • mainly used spears, swords, and sheilds
Peloponnesian War
  • started April 4, 431 B.C.
  • ended April 25 , 404 B.C.
  • Sparta won
Then, David, Steven, and Evan went.  Their project was about Homer.  Here are the notes I wrote:
  • born in 800 B.C. in Smyrna, Turkey
  • told stories about Trojan war
  • brought Greeks out of "Dark Age"
  • shaped Greek culture
  • many think he didn't exist
  • some think he is a single person; others think he was a group
  • thought to be blind
  • died around 701 B.C. - unknown how he died
  • most famous poems: Illiad and Odyssey
  • both over 1200 lines

Odyssey
  • Odysseus spent 10 years getting home after he won the war
  • Poseidon tried to get back at him for blinding his son
  • he put different obstacles in Odysseus's way, like storms and cyclops
We didn't have any time to do any others.

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