Greek Texts – 5 th century BCE 1. From each text, record 2 specific details that inform you about the culture in terms of gender roles. 2.Make and record 5 inferences you draw about the culture after connecting details from different texts. 3.List, then label each text as either a Primary or Secondary source.

The Dying Niobide: c. 440 Greece Homer Iliad, Book 24Book 24 Even fair-haired Niobe remembered food, with twelve of her own children murdered in her home, her six young daughters and her six strong sons. Apollo was so enraged at Niobe, with his silver bow he killed the sons. The daughters Artemis the Archer slaughtered, for Niobe had compared herself to lovely Leto, saying the goddess only had two children, while she had given birth to many. Even so, though only two, those gods killed all her children. For nine days they lay in their own blood, for there was no one there to give them burial. Cronos' son had turned the people all to stone. The tenth day, the gods in heaven buried them. That's when, worn out with weeping, Niobe had thoughts of food.Niobe Apollo ArtemisLeto Cronos "Ancient Greek Art, Sculpture : The Dying Niobid." Hellenica, Information about Greece and Cyprus, Michael Lahanas. Hellenica, Web. 23 Jan

Black Figure and Red Figure Amphora/ jars, Greece, circa 550 – 400 BCE

Red Figure hydria, c 450 BCE Woman reading, and three attendants. The reader, seated in a chair to right, bends forward over a scroll, of which a portion unrolled shows dots representing sixteen lines of writing arranged στοιχηδόν (stoichedon – arranged vertically as well as horizontally, in a grid-like fasion). The women on either side of her stand to front looking inwards, and wear Doric chiton with apoptygma, tied; the one on left has left resting on hip, and holds up in right an object like a large plectrum or purse (?): she has a purple fillet wound thrice round her looped-up hair. The other holds up on her right a square box of wicker. The seated figure and the one on the extreme right wear sleeved chitoi and himation. The one on extreme right wears a radiate dotted sphendone, and hold up in right a flower: all the three on right wear a dotted fillet with rays, wound twice around the hair. Over the seated figure hangs an embroidered cap with strings. Eye in developed profile. Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931 CVA British Museum 6

Red Figure hydria attributed to the Pisticci painter, Lucanian, 440 – 420 BCE