Ancient Greece leaders and what was expected of the citizens?

Answer 1

Greece was not a country, it was an ethnic classification, and covered hundreds of independent city-states located around the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Each had its own leaders, who morphed from kings to aristocrats and tyrants to elected leaders as the political systems evolved.

Well known leaders included Cleisthenes, Ephialtes and Pericles who brought in democracy in Athens; kings and war leaders Cleonomes, Leonidas and Pausanias of Sparta; Epaminondas and Pelopidas generals of Thebes.

Answer 2

women/girls:

• They learnt to read- in school or at home
• They learnt important household skills-spinning, weaving, sewing, cooking and other household jobs
• Learnt simple facts on mythology, religion and occasionally Musical Instruments
• Spent most of their time in her household with other women- only leaving the house to perform religious duties

when married they:

• Girls got married in their teens, often to a man in his 30's
• After a woman got married, she and her husband would give offerings to the god's and share a cake with her husband
• Her father would chose her husband- for most Athenians, marriage was basically living together
• Marriage may have been arranged from a very early age, if the daughter came from a wealthy family
• The ancient Greek girl did not know or meet her husband until the dowry(the girl's portion of the father's estate) and betrothal had been agreed to
• It was important that the ancient girls were virgins