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
- 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
- started April 4, 431 B.C.
- ended April 25 , 404 B.C.
- Sparta won
- 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
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