Individual study brainstorming:
Religion, gods and myths
- The importance of religion to the ancient Greeks
- How religion impacted their values and beliefs
- How religion was incorporated into daily life
- Research the different myths, the importance and significance of each god
- The importance of the myths and stories about the gods
- How these stories impacted the Greeks lives, morals and beliefs
- The importance of fate
- Sacred places and objects in Greek religion
- The relationship between mortals and immortals
Politics and democracy
- The Greeks are famous for having invented the first democracy, but their democracy is very different to what we call democracy today.
- To what extent was Athens
- Research, who could vote, who one could vote for…
- If it wasn’t a democracy, what was it?
- Research the political structure of ancient Greek
- Could compare it to another ancient political structure
I think I am leaning towards doing something about the democracy and politics of ancient Greece, it has a little more direction, because myths and religion is a huge topic. What does everyone think?
I like the Athenian deomcracy question and hopefully what we are doing in class at the moment may help you in that direction. The question of 'How democratic was Athens?' needs to have a time frame. Perhaps in 450 BC? You will see why that date as you read further.
ReplyDeleteThere is plenty of primary and secondary source material, as well as a lot of analysis of the question you are looking at.
How democratic was Periklean democracy by 431 BC?
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