The Day in the Life of a Athenian Merchant

If you were a rich Athenian merchant male you would wake up in the morning at the break of dawn and get dressed in a woolen tunic if you had enough money that went to there knees or there ankles. With your family which would regularly be your wife and usually there two or three children. You would all sit down at the table for breakfast and eat a small meal of bread soaked in wine mixed with water. After eating the father would leave and would walk down narrow and crooked streets to the agora which is a kind of market and gymnasium and speech area. The agora was a large open area with amazing and beautiful temples and buildings around it. Inside there was an open air square shaped area were men debated about issues. Further in there was an area with lots of vendors selling items like food, potery and dishes, and animals like sheep and goats. They would hawked their items or argued customers with their high prices. He might also be at a court Assembly as a jurors. Sometimes he would walk 10-20 miles just to travel to a political debate. In the Afternoon he would go to a outdoor gymnasium to exercise.