Adult Learners
In this page you will find learning and teaching resources that have been developed primarily for adult learners. They can help with developing independent research, or can be used to widen knowledge on some exciting historical moments.
Finding Children in Ancient Greece
It is often easiest to find children in ancient Greece by looking at their material culture, objects they would have used themselves or that would have been used in taking care of them. This series of videos thinks about nourishing, entertaining, and socialising children in ancient Greece, by looking at examples of their material culture in the Shefton Collection of Greek Art and Archaeology in the Great North Museum: Hancock.
The first video, Nourishing Children, focuses on a feeder, or feeding cup. The second, Entertaining Children, focuses on two small figurines, in the forms of a boar and a tortoise, which may have been children's toys. The third video, Socialising Children, focuses on a chous - a specific type of jug often associated with children in ancient Greece - to consider a festival that children took part in to be formally welcomed into society.
Each video looks at the Shefton artefact in detail, before considering how it would have been used in ancient Greece, and how we know that. The videos also consider the types of archaeological contexts the objects are found in and introduce some similar examples for comparison. The videos conclude with a discussion placing the objects in their historical and scholarly contexts, for example highlighting how they may be classified, besides as children's material culture.
Nourishing Children in Ancient Greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnV2qKQv7h8
Entertaining Children in Ancient Greece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Etx6cQQefM
Socialising Children in Ancient Greece