Poor Siding With Upper Class In Ancient Greece

1 for further reading on slavery in greece see nicholas jones ancient greece.

Poor siding with upper class in ancient greece.

History ancient greece. 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. The ancient greeks ate fairly simple foods.

For example in the u s. The greeks typically ate three meals a day. Athens the upper class. Research in ancient history is often linked to current social issues.

There are approximately five social classes that most people can agree on. The upper class the upper middle class the lower middle class the working class and the poor. Ancient greece was fully equipped with social class hierarchy system which divided people on the basis of the classes. Likewise the poor no doubt loathed the upper classes in athens as they restricted their freedom by enslaving them and limited their rights.

The ancient greece divided themselves into four classes. The fight against poverty has recently been a hot topic in contemporary societies and often in the press. The topmost class in the ancient greek government hierarchy was the upper class. State and society chapter citizens resident aliens and slaves.

The athens upper class. The house was made of sun dried mud brick. Information abut life in ancient greece comes decorations on pottery. 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. Unlike some other ancient cultures they did not consider extravagant and rich meals a good thing. Being poor in ancient greece. For rome see keith.

No clothes have survived from this period butt there are descriptions and artistic depiction of how it looked like. 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. To get money the poor would work days and nights just to get enough to feed their children. Clothing in ancient greece didn t change much during time.

Although the rich paid small amounts of money to the servants the poor were grateful for what they got. However far from being a result of capitalist societies poverty existed in pre industrial societies even in ancient ones. Most houses in ancient greek towns were built from stone or clay. The three main staple foods of the greek diet were wheat oil and wine.

Although we thing that most of the clothing in ancient greece was white they were of elaborate design and of bright colors.