Roman Leisure Origins
Greek Leisure Origins
Roman Leisure Activities
Greek Leisure Activities
Miscellaneous
100
This location held public executions and Roman gladiator fights.
What is the Colosseum?
100
The God who was honored by creating the Olympic Games.
Who is the Greek God Zeus?
100
A good location to get fit, meet people and do business.
What are the Roman baths?
100
To Greek people, teenage girls playing knucklebones was a metaphor for this.
What is the hit-or-miss gamble of marriage?
100
This Greek city had the most freedom for women, where they did not have to ask their husbands permission to leave the house.
What is Sparta?
200
The location in which the Romans held chariot races.
What is the Circus Maximus?
200
He stated that leisure was a necessity for the development of excellence and performance of political duties in ancient Greek society.
Who is Aristotle?
200
These are some of the oldest and most popular sports amongst the Ancient elite.
What are hunting and fishing?
200
These began in Greece as a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states around ancient Greece.
What are the Olympic Games
200
The first Olympic Games took place in what year?
What is 776 BC?
300
This is generally associated with the overthrow of the Etruscan kings and the establishment of the Republic in 509 BC.
What is Roman Art
300
The Greeks were the first to invent these buildings that could hold up to 14,000 people.
What are theaters?
300
This was one of the most popular recreational areas in Rome. It was a vast floodplain that acted as a playground for the youth of Rome. Individuals here engaged in wrestling, boxing, racing, and throwing.
What is Campus Martius.
300
This individual believed that knowledge was required in choosing the best pleasures; the good life was a life of right choices and conduct
Who is Socrates
300
Philosophy in ancient Greece was seen as means of recreation, these two theorists are studied till this day.
Who are Plato and Aristotle?