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Greek Women: Working with Evidence - Primary and Secondary

Greek Women: Working with Evidence - Primary and Secondary. Continuity and Change. Primary Source Evidence - Objects. View the following objects and describe what you see. Refer to: The settings and what the women are doing there The way women are dressed

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Greek Women: Working with Evidence - Primary and Secondary

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  1. Greek Women: Working with Evidence -Primary and Secondary

  2. Continuity and Change

  3. Primary Source Evidence - Objects • View the following objects and describe what you see. • Refer to: • The settings and what the women are doing there • The way women are dressed • Any poses or gestures that capture your attention • Who else is in or not in the scenes

  4. Group Activity • Discuss what inferences historians could make about Greek women based on the objects you are about to view. Divide your inferences into these three categories: • What is known for certain? • What is probable? • What is unsure (you are guessing)? Inference = “a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning” (what I know + what I see)

  5. 1 “Attributed to the Danae Painter: bell krater (23.160.80)”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000-. http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/23.160.80 (July 10, 2012).

  6. “Attributed to the Amasis Painter: Lekythos. (31.11.10)”. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000-. http:// metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/31.11.10 (July 10, 2012). 2

  7. Bronze Figure of a Running Girl. British Museum. N.d. http://www.britishmuseum.org/ explore/highlights/highlight_objects/gr/b/bronze_figure_of_a_girl.aspx(July 10, 2012). 3

  8. “Attributed to the Class of Hamburg: 1917.477: terracotta hydria (water jar) (06.1021.77)” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000-. http://metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/ 06.1021.77 (July 10, 2012) 4

  9. “Attributed to the Class of Hamburg: 1917.477: terracotta hydria (water jar) (06.1021.77)” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000-. http://metmuseum.org/ toah/works-of-art/06.1021.77 (July 10, 2012) 5

  10. “Grave stele (pentelic marbe), circa 350 BCE: (956.108).” Royal Ontario Museum. Gallery of Greece. 2012. http://images.rom.on.ca/public/index.php?function=image&action=simpledetail&image_name=ROM2004_1017_4 (July 12, 2012). 6

  11. Description of Objects • 1. Woman playing lyre instrument; perhaps Sapho the poet with two of her female students. • 2. Women working with wool, showing the five step process involved in making the family’s clothing. • 3. Running girl; thought to be Spartan. Spartan girls participated in Olympic-like games celebrating the goddess Hera. Running was one of the sports. • 4. Water jar showing women filling water jars at a fountain house. • 5. Goddess Athena on an amphora of oil given as a prize at the Panathenaic games. • 6. Grave stele (marker) for the woman Iostrate shown with her servant girl. The The teacher would probably not give this information until after the students had made their own inferences.

  12. Now what? • Where would you go for more evidence? • It is important to go to the right type of source for evidence and question its pros and cons for your purpose (to understand the role of Greek women): • Other primary sources… • Secondary sources • Scholarly sources (that probably rely on (interpret) many primary sources) • Textbooks (that may or may not refer to primary sources; are probably based on secondary sources)

  13. Written PSD Examples • Hipponax, On Women, c. 580 BCE • Two happy days a woman brings a man: the first, when he marries her; the second, when he bears her to the grave. • Thukydides, Pericles' Dictum on Women, c. 395 BCE • The best wife is the one of whom the least is said, either of good or evil. • Philemon, The Good Wife, c. 350 BCE • A good wife's duty 'tis, Nicostratus, not to command, but to obey her spouse; most mischievous a wife who rules her husband. The Lot of the Hellenic Woman, c. 700-300 BCE. Fordham University. Ancient History Sourcebook. 1999. http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/700greekwomen.asp (July 10, 2012).

  14. Aristotle PSD Annotation • As Ms. G reads the excerpt from Aristotle’s Oikonomikos, annotate the document. • Focus on the gap between men’s power and control and women’s responsibilities • Write inferences – what you think he is really saying

  15. In-Class Written Assignment • Task: To what extent did Aristotle’s interpretation of Greek women’s lives agree with and/or contradict the interpretation of their lives as seen in the vases/objects? • Answer in your HTC Journal by hand. Page limit of 3 pages, double-spaced. • Start by asking 3 or more questions about the vases/objects, the document and the relationship between them. Show curiosity! • Use precise examples from the PSD and the objects to support your conclusions: minimum of 2 from each (two vases, two quotes). • Make sure you incorporate into your answer some of the inferences you made about the vases/objects and about what you think Aristotle was really saying. Choose your degree of certainty carefully. Think about all you have learned about how to use an appropriate tone of probability.

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