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The sites below will help you conduct further research into the topics in Chapter 5.

In Our Time

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• Rhetoric

Athenian houses and households

• Play the British Museum’s ‘Greek House Challenge’.
• A page with some good material about a symposium.

Athenian education

• An interactive site from the Getty museum about Athenian childhood.

The working life of a male citizen

The life of women

• A site with various links about women in classical Greece.
• A superb collection of images relating to women in classical Greece.
• An animated reenactment of the rituals of the Thesmophoria.
• An article examining the women of Aristophanes’ plays.

Slavery at Athens

• Documents of Greek slavery from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.

Attitudes to death, funerals and ancestors

• A set of visual resources on death, burial and the afterlife in ancient Greece.