In his introductory remarks to William Baker's essay on the early "Organized Greek Games" of the classical era, one of the editors of The Western Experience, Steven Golden, writes that sports are not merely a kind of sideshow to a nation or a society but a mainstream component of that soci...

Activity 1 – Laying the Foundations (Knowledge & Understanding) Concepts Mycenaea 6500 BCE Neolithic farming starts to develop also the production bronze starts, there is trade and use of natural resources. Archaeologist called this new culture Mycenaean, after its largest political centre,...

In Ancient Greece, boys go to school, while the girls stayed at home to help their moms cook and look after the household. In Athens, it was a man's world. In the family, the father was the head of the family. The wife stayed at home and ran the household. The husband could divorce, if the wife wa...