Farmer's Role In Classical Greece

Classical Greece The purpose of this essay is to define the role play by the farmer as it seen and understood by historians; this will lead to an emphasis of the civilization of Greece, 1000-400 B.C.E. The basic social unit throughout the Greek world is similar to what we call today family. In their time, there was not an exact words to the term family, the nearest one one’s can think of was oikos (household). Their social organization is about similar to the one’s we have today. The head of the oikos was the oldest male, who was in charge of the religious practice that were conducted in the home. Which allow me to say that men and women played different role during the classical civilization. Men were responsible on activity that required strength and women were focused on taking care of the house and children, which is common to the Africans society viewed on men and women stratification. If I was at

In the late fifth century B.C., I was a farmer who owned no more than three acres of land around the population of Athens. In our time, being a farmer is different of what we know today, it was an extremely hard occupation due to the poor quality of the soil. For that reason I have to come up with a plan on how to economize on space. I had to separate each cereals, olives, and grapes in different fields. The reason was that the land has to left fallow for a year after each season’s cultivation in order to make it cultivable for the coming years and more laborious. This left fallow technic was recognize to us farmers as the best technic. Every one of us was applying the same technic in order to feed our families and sell the rest to the local market. Farming being considered as an extremely hard job at that time due to its hard climate and only few valleys are capable of supporting agriculture. However, it was also the most respected