Antigone Research Excursion Reactions

I chose to watch Griffin and Hilary's research excursion. The topics were not related, but I was interested in seeing other examples of narrated slides, since that's the format I presented my research excursion in. I enjoyed seeing how their personality came out in the slides, especially through slide formatting and design! Griffin's topic was Women's Social Roles in Ancient Greece. Last year, I took a class which compared ancient empires, one of which was the Roman Empire. Watching Griffin's research excursion reminded me of what we learned about gender roles in the Roman Empire, since I'm pretty sure we learned about Athenian women and the limitations they faced in their patriarchal society. I thought that was cool since it showed me how two people can learn about the same thing in such different contexts and have the same takeaways. Hilary, on the other hand, shared her new understandings of Foreigners and Burials in ancient Greece. Something I thought was especially interesting about watching both of these presentations was that, although the topics were extremely different, I was able to draw connections between them. The main similarity I observed between topics was that ancient Greece was an extremely oppressive place to live if you weren't born as a privileged man. Whether people were women or foreigners, societal had oppressive structures which hindered their autonomy and actively significantly oppressed their basic human rights. It was interesting to see how Griffin and Hilary both came to similar conclusions about ancient Greek society, even though their topics were so different.