Greek culture- The Ancient Greek culture was male dominated. Males ran the government and spent alot of time away from home. Men enjoyed drinking parties, wrestling, horseback riding and watching the Olympic games. Women on the other hand had little to no rights in most of Greece. Greek women had only two jobs in Ancient Greece, to take care of the house and to have children. To help with the housework most Greeks had slaves. These slaves cleaned and looked gaurd while the man of the home was away. Women and daughters also were not allowed to attend their husbands drinking parties. The only place where women had much more rights was in Sparta. In Sparta men were away most of the time training or fighting due to the warrior culture. This warrior culture led to boys being taken at a young age to be trained for combat. This let women have more rights due to the fact that someone needed to maintain Sparta while the men were gone. Sparta also did not embrace philosiphy or education beacuse training for war was the only thing that mattered. In Athens it was the oppisite, education was very important for boys (most girls could not attend school). This was due to the fact boys could not join the army until age 18, so because they had all this time at home they decided to make these boys recive an education. Philosiphy grew with the works of people like Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, who asked questions no one else asked. Poems were also highly read in ancient Greece, especially epics such as the Illiad and the Odyssey written by Homer. Greeks kept pets like dogs and birds at home. Greeks also enjoyed food such as bread, seafood and cake, and drinks such as wine. Men and women wore linen clothes in the summer and wool clothes in the winter. Due to the expensive cost of clothes most Greeks made their own. Culture was very diverse in Ancient Greece, depending on where you lived, but the same cultural norms were present in all of Ancient Greece which is why this is remembered as the culture of the great Greeks.