Art and Culture

1. 3.5 Life In Archaic
Greece
Objective: Discuss the society, religion, and poetry of archaic
Greece.

2. What is Archaic?
• It is a early art and culture of Greece during 7th and 6th Centuries.

3. ATTIC JAR
• Task: Look at the image than write your own understandings in your
copybook.

4. Attic Jar
• From late in the sixth century B.C.E, this jar shows how olives, one of
Athens’ most important crops, were harvested.

5. Society
• As the dark ages came to an end, the role of the artisans and merchants grew
more important as contact with Non-Greek.
• Majority of people continued to make their living from the land (Agriculture
or farming)
• Wealthy aristocrats, powerful households, families, and clan had very
different life than poorer.

6. Farmers
• There is no such records of ancient from ancient Greece activities.
• However the poet Hesiod presented himself as a small farmer and his
Works and Days gives some idea of a life such a farmer.
• Crops: Grain, wheat,, grapes for wine, olives for oil (such a cooking oil),
green vegetables, especially beans and some fruits.
• Sheep and goats provided milk and cheese.

7. Task: Use the Frogos and analyze the given
document by answering given questions.

8. Aristocrats (nobleman)
• Highest ranking in certain society.
• Who were the aristocrats?
• They were rich enough to employ many laborers and even buy slaves.
• Leisure time activities of aristocrats:
• 1. The Drinking parties. (Symposium or Symposion)
• 2. Symposium was a organized occasion with king.
• 3. they played games such as dice or Kottabos.
• 4. Pentathlon games, which includes boxing, wrestling, and the chariot.
• 5. Palestra (Wrestling school or Gymnasium)

9. Religion
• Greek were the polytheist:
• Greek twelve gods.
• Zeus, the father of gods.
• Task: Search about the gods and their responsibility.
• Hera
• Zeus’s siblings
• Hestia
• Demeter
• Zeus’s Children:
• Ares
• Artemis
• Athena
• Hephaestus
• Hermes

10. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdHHus8IgYA

11. Poetry
• The great changes sweeping through the
Greek world were also reflected in the poetry
of the sixth century B.C.E.
• Sappho was an archaic Greek poet from the
island of Lesbos. Sappho is known for her
lyric poetry.

12. Anacreon of Teos
Anacreon was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs
and hymns

13. Simonides of Cous
Simonides of Ceos was a Greek lyric poet, born at
Ioulis on Ceos.