Ancient Greece Pottery

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‘By observing Ancient Greece pottery you see old times and modern times come together’ The ancient Greeks left vases, covered with road maps of their life while they lived. Thousands of years later a person can look at one of theses vases today and tell you how they cared for their dead. How they dressed, what they grew. That ancient Greeks were thinkers. Anyone can look at Ancient Greece pottery and know what there way of life was like. By observing Ancient Greece pottery you see old times and modern times come together. My first subject is death and burial. The vases I viewed had pictures of both male and female mourners. There was also a picture of the dead on a bier. Men and women had different roles in the burial of there dead. Women had to wash the body and wrap it in cloth and decorations. They would put herbs and flowers around the body. Three days after a person’s death they would carry it to the cemetery. The body would be buried before dawn. Men had to dig the hole and sacrifice animals. Today we still bury our dead, (we embalm) and we don’t sacrifice. My second subject is spinning and weaving: The vases I viewed all had females doing something with wool. Spinning and weaving was thought of as a women’s job. They made all the bedding, walling hangings, and clothes for everyone else. Even queens and noble women knew how to spin and weave. The hard parts of spinning and weaving they had slaves do for them. Wool had to be spin into thread before they could weave it into cloth. Today we still practice this; however machines do it for us. There are still people that do spinning and weaving by hand. My third subject is agriculture: The vases I viewed had men doing farm work on them. It also had men dancing around an alter. Agriculture is some time called the work of demented. Agriculture is farming, working the

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