Read the excerpt from The Ancient City. There were no desks. Vase paintings show boys sitting on stools holding wood-backed wax writing tablets. They wrote on the wax with a stylus, a sort of bone or metal pencil pointed at one end and flattened out in a leaf shape at the other. Many of these have been found. The flattened end was used for smoothing out the wax to make corrections. Occasionally they were allowed to write properly, with a reed pen and ink on papyrus. All books were written on papyrus, and rolled up in scrolls rather than bound in pages.
Which excerpts from "Temple of the Gods” in The Ancient City state the central ideas of that section? Check all that apply.The most important feature of classical Greek religion was the sacrifice, which was performed outside temples or shrines dedicated to particular deities. Ancient Greek religion was polytheistic. The gods combined supernatural and human characteristics, and no god was either wholly good or wholly bad. Ritual was a central part of both public and private life.Other important deities were Dionysus, the god of wine and the performing arts, and Asclepius, the god of healing.There were temples to Athena in her different aspects in various places in the city, including the great Parthenon on the Acropolis.
Why does the author use the words "very light elder-wood” to describe the javelin? Check all that apply.
Read the sentence from The Ancient City.Classes were held in the private houses of teachers.
Which aspects of the ancient Greek long jump were different from the modern long jump? Check all that apply.
Read the sentence from The Ancient City.The exomis, worn by slaves and those doing manual work, was fastened at the left shoulder with a pin or knot, leaving the right shoulder bare, and was tied at the waist with a girdle.
Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.Most Greek clothing was made of wool, but flax was also used, as was a coarse cloth called sakkos made from animal hair. Greek clothing was not tailored. It was made from rectangular pieces of cloth.
In The Ancient City, the author compares details of several kinds of Greek clothing. What is the central idea that connects all the clothing the author describes?
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Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.Middle and upper class [Athenian] girls learned to read, write and probably play the lyre from a female tutor at home. They only performed physical exercises at festivals, and probably never in public as Spartan girls did. But the Spartans regarded physical health in girls as an important factor in producing future generations of warriors.
Read the excerpt The Ancient City.The adult games started with the stadion, the 184-metre (200-yard) sprint. (This was the most prestigious of all the events at Olympia: the winner gave his name to the Olympiad, the four-year dating system.) This was followed by the long distance race of twenty or twenty-four lengths of the track (3680 metres/4024 yards or 4416 metres/4829 yards).The third track event, the hippios, was a middle distance race of six lengths, a little over 1000 metres (1093 yards). It was probably called the hippios, horse race, because the distance was the same as that run by horses.
Why does the author specify that the dolls were made of terracotta, a type of clay? Check all that apply.
Which details support the central idea of the excerpt? Check all that apply.
Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.We do not know how much education Athenian girls received. Middle and upper class girls learned to read, write and probably play the lyre from a female tutor at home. They only performed physical exercises at festivals, and probably never in public as Spartan girls did. But the Spartans regarded physical health in girls as an important factor in producing future generations of warriors.
Read the excerpt from The Ancient City.The basic article of clothing was the tunic. There were two types. The exomis, worn by slaves and those doing manual work, was fastened at the left shoulder with a pin or knot, leaving the right shoulder bare, and was tied at the waist with a girdle. The chiton was a more refined version, fastened at both shoulders.
Read the sentence from The Ancient City.The boys now came under the authority of the paidotribes, an austere man with a purple cloak and a long two-branched stick, who taught gymnastics and other physical exercise.
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