WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most Greek children, especially the girls, never went to school. Greek girls were not allowed to go to school and were often educated at home. The boys started school at 7 years old, and stayed until they were about 14. In the mornings they learned to read, write and do simple maths.

Detailed explanation-2: -The primary purpose of Athenian education was to produce thinkers, people well-trained in arts and sciences, people prepared for peace or war. Young Athenian boys were tutored at home until the age of six or seven, and then they were sent to neighborhood schools for primary education until they were 14 years of age.

Detailed explanation-3: -By age eighteen, all boys were expected to attend military school, from which they graduated at twenty. From the age of thirty and onward, they could participate in politics. It was also around this age that they usually married.

Detailed explanation-4: -Among them were the philosopher Anaxagoras, the architect Hippodamus of Miletus, who reconstructed Peiraeus, as well as the historians Herodotus (484–425), Thucydides (460–400), and Xenophon (430–354).