Athenian Education Research Paper

In my opinion Athenians prepared their boys as best they could according to their needs. This education was meant to prepare him for any walk of life he may walk from being a soldier to a high ranking politician. His role as the future Kyrios would entail him to make sure his wife would run the domestic and economic affairs of the household. He would have also bought slaves from slave-markets and became the main representative at weddings, funerals and festivals. He must have been able to host symposia well as well. Their education was meant to provide them with the skills to do all these tasks. The first person who would educate a boy is his father this would be done until the age of 7. From his father the boy he would learn skills such as how to treat the family members, maybe his trade or how to manage and run a farm estate out of the city. These practical skills were very important to a boy as he was growing up. The paidagogos was there to discipline the boy with a cane if he was not behaving properly this would make the boy more focused don learning his lessons.
They first studied the Greek alphabet and learnt how to read and write they also learned basic numeracy. These were essential tools to be able to run a successful household. It also helped with patience because the style of learning was extremely monotonous and involved hours of practice for both reading and writing. If they succeeded in this and their parents were willing to pay for their education students studied the Iliad and the Odyssey which was very important because the Greeks believed that these pieces of literature taught very important moral lessons and taught their children how to be a true Greek. They might however struggled though because the class was filled with people of all different abilities and