gk0608 said:
yeh but everything they've asked has basically covered the entire syllabus so they'll have to ask similar questions again =P plus its all sort of linked, if you do economy, you have to see how social structure affected that...
actually, there are a few they haven't really asked, like food and clothing, art, architecture, writing and literature... either that or i haven't gone back far enough lol. but yeah, i love economy.
i'm sort of unsure about the 'marriage customs' though. that hasn't been asked and i can't find it in my textbook...i might have to google it XD
i was actually making notes on this earlier today, i'll type them up (will be good revision):
- married when they were 'ripe for it' (Plutarch), i.e. physically ready unlike other societies where women married very young
- married within their own social class, meaning that property became concentrated in the hands of a few families
- two accounts describe marriage by capture, however this was likely symbolic as it appears women had an inut in who their daughters would marry
- account by Plutarch describes the shaving of the bride's hair, possibly to ease the man into intercourse with a woman rather than a man, or it could imply chastity or subjection of the woman to her husband
- beforehand tehre was a women-only feast in which brest-shaped cakes were eaten (possibly for fertility puroses), a hymn by Alcman was sung
- 'trial marriage' - men thought to have sneaked to see their wives at night until a child was produced, if this did not happen an alternate arrangement could be made
- also taking place was the practice of 'wife sharing' (or as modern feminist historians have called it, 'husband doubling') whereby a man could allow his wife to hae a child by another women (thought to have been introduced to bolster population of Spartiates)
and that's about it lol. hope it helps.
you sound like you know what you're talking about for the rest of the course though, so you'll probably do really well =)
haha, i only know general stuff, though. i'm screwed if they ask something like art or private houses in pompeii i'm totally screwed lol
hmmm for P+H i'm hoping for a streetscape question somewhere =P, our trial had a similar question about pompeii's layout.
they very well may. if you look at the 2006 specimen paper, that was the 4-marker, and often questions similar to the specimen paper are used.
jeahsen said:
relationships for personalities
houses for P & H
role of helots for Sparta (theyve asked for periokoi and women so why not?)
lol, i'm the opposite. i would cry if any of these turned up in the exam.