The Athens story

So in the Athens they made a lot of people slaves. Before the man and woman were free and then they forced a lot of people they chose to be a slave. They believe that the women possessed by demons and spirits. the Athens also made every single women in the city cover their face. The Athens called they people who didn't participate in the democracy idiots. The people were forced to be a slave when they became a prisoner of war. They were separated from their family's and the Greek people referred to the people as man footed things. Also a married woman is the possession of the man. They woman were treated so terribly and most of the men too. Although there  was on girl named Pathol the Greeks praised her as a goddess. In return she would give them her voice and her sweet words. So I guess that there was at least one girl who got treated okay. Thank you for reading. :)  

171 word post for Athens law by luke

to miss Swark; here is the rest of my Athens report.
I think that Athens law was not fair I think this because they did not make any woman or people who didn't have parents who where both born in the state city Athens citizens. If you where not a citizen then you could not vote or basically do any thing because you had to be a slave and do all the hard heavy work that the Athens citizens didn't want to do and I think that is unfair because every one matters the same
I also think think this is unfair because the Athens men only worshiped this one woman named python who was worshiped as a goddess because the men thought that if they would worship her then she would give them the gift of good speech and sweet words.
If I was born a slave I would agree with this because I would not like to be a slave for life.
This is why I think Athens law is unfair.

A Word With Mickey

Not only were the Athens a democracy that used certain people as slaves but they also didn't let many people be an actual citizen. All people started out free but many ended up being sold as slaves for other people of higher ranking. The men/boys believed that women/girls were possessed and were demonic creatures. The Athens also called the people who didn't participate idiotays. Women were treated very poorly in the Athens and other city/states. So I believe that the Athens was a city/state of people that were not equal but equity and that people were mistreated in many different ways. Woman use to have to cover their face and body and only let their eyes show out of their clothing. Also woman were only allowed to show themselves to their husband. Now in my opinion the way woman were treat was truly terrible and that woman should not be treated like that ever in the course of history and that woman should never have to be treated like that ever in their life.

That’s what I have to say, I’m Mickey I’ll see you later, Bye!

Eli's post

I think that Athenian democracy was not fair because they barely let anyone vote for what they wanted and they thought that women had to be restrained. The only people aloud to vote had to be in the military. And the people who were chosen to be the leaders were picked by a lottery instead of being chosen by skill and ability. I think that it was especially unfair because the people who should have been voting were being slaves. Over 1000 people were slaves, that is not fair. Voting is probably the most important part of democracy because that is the way that people made decisions. The government was also not very nice because they told people who did not participate in democracy (practically everyone) idiots. My final word is that the Athens idea of democracy was not fair in almost any way. Athens may have been a powerful city-state but they did not have a fair democracy. That is my opinion.

SS Madison

 Women were under estimated, they were considered property to who they were married to. Not that the typical slave life was any better, witch it was not. The Athens were very sloppy since they knew the slaves would just clean up after them. Now this seems pretty unfair but the voting was only worse, the only people who were aloud to vote were citizens but only men could have citizen rights that means that women, children and slaves could not have citizen rights, but it was not enough to be a man born in Athens no, no, no both the mans parents had to be born in Athens in order for them to have citizen rights. Because of all the reasons above I personally think that Athens said they were fair but they really were not fair at all. I think that if they wanted to make it fair they could start with treating women equally to men and not capture people and say ''okay I caught you now your mine,'' this is what I think about and Athens I hope you will consider what I have said about the Athens.                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Is Athenian democracy fair? By Kate 

In part one of our project we watched a video on how the Athenians created direct democracy to be extremely fair. It emphasized the fact that the man that won the war was the man who let everyone join him. Then, in this videos it talks about how things weren't as fair as we thought they would be. For our direct democracy on the island we wanted everyone to vote no matter what. So when we started to study Athenian democracy we thought it would be similar. When we watched the video though we realized things were quite different. The Athenians had slaves who were very mistreated and they believed women were evil demons! So obviously they couldn't vote. I think it is unfair that the slaves and women couldn't vote, but I see what the Athenians are thinking. They thought that the slaves were now less than a man and that, once again, women were demons. Would you let someone vote if you thought they were a demon? So I think that Athenian democracy is fair just based on their beliefs.

Julia's musing

I think that the Athens democracy was not fair at all.

The Athens democracy was wrong it was not fair to the people who lived there,the Athens made the people suffer harsh punishments and the way they wound out if someone is guilty or not was really,really,really not fair.

The government did not know how the people were feeling or how they thought of there government.The Athens government was cruel and they had no idea how the people felt because if the people rose up at the time they would be killed technically.

What I think if I was a Athen I would get together a large group of people and I would rise up against the Athens government and I would hope that it would work and that I saved the people who were suffering and we're being treated bad.The people would be safe and free from all pain and suffering,but not all suffering like money loss or family problems they would just be free of government and what they were doing.

That is what I think of the Athens version of government,not everyone would agree with me just like the project we did but that is what I think and what I would do if I was a Athen citizen.