077 From Childbirth to Adolescence @ryanmstitt
077 From Childbirth to Adolescence  @ryanmstitt
Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 14 hours ago
In this episode, we discuss what it was was like in ancient Athens for a young girl or boy from birth to adolescence, by looking at childbirth, childhood, the various rites of passages that they must surpass on the way to becoming teenagers, the paideia education system (both Old and New) and finally the training young boys undertook in order to be accepted as a hoplite citizen warrior

Show Notes: thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/07/077-from-childbirth-to-adolescence.html



Intro by William Hubbard of the Layman's Historian Podcast

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077 From Childbirth to Adolescence

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