Poor Siding With Upper Class In Ancient Greece

History ancient greece.

Poor siding with upper class in ancient greece.

Information abut life in ancient greece comes decorations on pottery. The house was made of sun dried mud brick. The people of this class possessed the uppermost power and position in the society. The greeks typically ate three meals a day.

Mud houses crumbled away in a few years and had to rebuild the roofs were covered with tiles or reeds and the houses had one or two stories. Ancient greece a phenomenal civilisation and a important part of the greek history. The ancient greeks ate fairly simple foods. For rome see keith.

The ancient greece divided themselves into four classes. Although we thing that most of the clothing in ancient greece was white they were of elaborate design and of bright colors. However far from being a result of capitalist societies poverty existed in pre industrial societies even in ancient ones. Although the rich paid small amounts of money to the servants the poor were grateful for what they got.

Unlike some other ancient cultures they did not consider extravagant and rich meals a good thing. State and society chapter citizens resident aliens and slaves. To get money the poor would work days and nights just to get enough to feed their children. The topmost class in the ancient greek government hierarchy was the upper class.

The athens upper class. Clothing in ancient greece didn t change much during time. What meals did they eat. One has to be born in athens to be a part of the upper class as the rights for this class could only be inherited on the hereditary basis.

In these fragments we. No clothes have survived from this period butt there are descriptions and artistic depiction of how it looked like. Research in ancient history is often linked to current social issues. 1 for further reading on slavery in greece see nicholas jones ancient greece.

Likewise the poor no doubt loathed the upper classes in athens as they restricted their freedom by enslaving them and limited their rights. Being poor in ancient greece. The three main staple foods of the greek diet were wheat oil and wine. Athens the upper class.

There are approximately five social classes that most people can agree on. The fight against poverty has recently been a hot topic in contemporary societies and often in the press. Most houses in ancient greek towns were built from stone or clay. The ancient greece hierarchy includes four classes namely upper class or the athens the middle class or the metics the lower class or freemen and the last ones as slaves.

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