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education in Athens
education of boys and girls in athens
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what did Athenian boys learn how to do in school? | they learned reading, writing, and arithmetic,music, memorized poetry, debating, |
| Who did Athenian boys learn from? | they learned from a grammatistes |
| what age did boys go to school? | age 7 |
| What age were boys considered young adults? | age 12 and 13 |
| what would boys do at the end of their childhood? | they would give their old toys to Apollo and Artemis. |
| which gender did not go to school? | the girls |
| what did girls from well-off families have and learn? | they had private tutors and were taught to read and write. |
| What did the mother teach to the girl? | she taught spinning and weaving and how to run the home. |