1. Greek Women: Working with Evidence - Primary and Secondary

2. Primary Source Evidence - Objects
View the following objects and describe what you see.
Refer to:
The settings and what the women are doing there
The way women are dressed
Any poses or gestures that capture your attention

3. Group Activity
Discuss what inferences historians could make about Greek women based on the objects you are about to view. Divide your inferences into these three categories:
What is known for certain?
What is probable?
What is unsure (you are guessing)?
Inference = “a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning”

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“Attributed to the Danae Painter: bell krater ( )”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan
Museum of Art (July 10, 2012).

5. “Attributed to the Amasis Painter: Lekythos. (31. 11. 10)”
“Attributed to the Amasis Painter: Lekythos. ( )”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/ (July 10, 2012). 2

6. Bronze Figure of a Running Girl. British Museum. N. d. http://www
Bronze Figure of a Running Girl. British Museum. N.d. explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/bronze_figure_of_a_girl.aspx (July 10, 2012). 3

7. “Attributed to the Class of Hamburg: 1917
“Attributed to the Class of Hamburg: : terracotta hydria (water jar) ( )” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art (July 10, 2012) 4

8. “Attributed to the Class of Hamburg: 1917. 477: terracotta hydria
“Attributed to the Class of Hamburg: : terracotta hydria (water jar) ( )” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art toah/works-of-art/ (July 10, 2012) 5

9. “Grave stele (pentelic marbe), circa 350 BCE: (956. 108)
“Grave stele (pentelic marbe), circa 350 BCE: ( ).” Royal Ontario Museum. Gallery of Greece (July 12, 2012). 6

10. Description of Objects
1. Woman playing lyre instrument; perhaps Sapho the poet with two of her female students.
2. Women working with wool, showing the five step process involved in making the family’s clothing.
3. Running girl; thought to be Spartan. Spartan girls participated in Olympic-like games celebrating the goddess Hera. Running was one of the sports.
4. Water jar showing women filling water jars at a fountain house.
5. Goddess Athena on an amphora of oil given as a prize at the Panathenaic games.
6. Grave stele (marker) for the woman Iostrate shown with her servant girl.
The
The teacher would probably not give this information until after the students had made their own inferences.

11. Now what? Where would you go for more evidence?
It is important to go to the right type of source for evidence and question its pros and cons for your purpose (to understand the role of Greek women):
Other primary sources…
Secondary sources
Scholarly sources (that probably rely on (interpret) many primary sources)
Textbooks (that may or may not refer to primary sources; are probably based on secondary sources)

12. Written PSD Examples Hipponax, On Women, c. 580 BCE
Two happy days a woman brings a man: the first, when he marries her; the second, when he bears her to the grave.
Thukydides, Pericles' Dictum on Women, c. 395 BCE
The best wife is the one of whom the least is said, either of good or evil.
Philemon, The Good Wife, c. 350 BCE
A good wife's duty 'tis, Nicostratus, not to command, but to obey her spouse; most mischievous a wife who rules her husband.
The Lot of the Hellenic Woman, c BCE. Fordham University. Ancient History Sourcebook (July 10, 2012).

13. Continuity and Change Greece (152- 153) Egypt Rome Modern Canada
Main activities (within home, outside home)
Rights (legal, political, other)
Education
Differences based on class
Restrictions
Overall perception of them in society

14. Conclusions from Chart
After completing the chart respond to the following prompts to hand in.
My eyes were opened to…
I was surprised that…
As I thought…

15. Assignment for in-class Tomorrow
Read this excerpt from Aristotle’s Oikonomikos. Give a written response to the following three questions. You have most of the period.
What inferences can you draw from this reading?
How does this fit the inferences regarding the visual evidence you’ve already looked at? Fit can mean add to, complement, contradict, or anything else.
What questions are you left with after reading this source?