Ancient Greeks

By Joseph and Winifred

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Greek houses • Men and women lived in

different parts of the house. Women had the back and upstairs part.

• Most houses in Ancient Greek towns were built from stone or clay. The roofs were covered with tiles, or reeds, and the houses had one or two storeys. The floors of the rooms were tiled to keep them cool, although in winter fires in metal baskets were sometimes needed.

• Larger homes had a kitchen, a room for bathing, a men's dining room, and sometimes a woman's sitting area.

• The houses were planned around a courtyard, and had high walls and a strong gate. Much of ancient Greek family life centered around the courtyard.

Who are the Greeks?

• The earliest Greek civilizations thrived nearly 4,000 years ago. The Ancient Greeks lived in Greece and the countries that we now call Bulgaria and Turkey.

• The Ancient Greece empire spread over Europe as far as France in the East. The Greek Empire was most powerful between 2000 BC and 146 BC

• The ancient Greeks developed new ideas for government, science, philosophy, religion, and art.

Religion

• Religion was important to the ancient Greeks because they believed that it would make their lives better while they were living. They also believed the gods would take care of them when they died. This looks

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Facts• A sculptor named Pygmalion made a statue of the goddess Aphrodite - and fell in love

with it!• Heracles showed his amazing strength as a baby. He strangled two snakes sent to kill

him and his brother.• In Hades, you would not want to meet Hecate, a witch-goddess who lurked in the

gloom with a pack of ghostly dogs.• Pluto wore a helmet that made him invisible and drove a chariot pulled by four black

horses.• The god Pan was half-goat, half-man. A Triton was half-man, half-fish. A Centaur was

half-horse, half-man.• The winged horse Pegasus helped the hero Bellerophon kill the Chimera. The Chimera

was a fierce mixed-up monster, with bits of human, goat, lion and snake! • The three-headed dog Cerberus guarded the gates to the Underworld. Funeral

mourners left honey cakes for him. • A woman named Arachne boasted she could weave better than the goddess Athena.

She lost, and Athena changed her into a spider.• At a big religious festival, like the Panathenae in Athens, as many as 100 cattle were

sacrificed.

Greek Gods!

• The Greeks believed that gods and goddesses watched over them. The gods were like humans, but immortal (they lived for ever) and much more powerful.

• A family of gods and goddesses lived in a cloud-palace above Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece. The gods looked down to watch what people were doing, and from time to time, interfered with what went on.

Transport• The archer Philoctetes • led a group of seven• ships with 50 warriors• each.• This is a boat that they

would go to war in.

Row ,row, row your boat, gently down the sea.

War • If a Spartan soldier was afraid and ran away, he was in disgrace. He had to prove

his bravery in the next battle.

• Spartan boys had to train without underwear, and wore just one tunic - winter and summer.

• 'At ease', a soldier rested his spear end on the ground and his shield on his thigh. He sometimes did this to show he wasn't scared of an enemy too.

• Army wagons carried shovels, axes and sickles (for harvesting grain, for food).

Greek Schools • Greek schools were small. They had only one

teacher and about ten or twenty boys. The schools were not free and so only the rich could really afford to send their children to school.

• The children did not need much school equipment as they had to learn everything off by heart. When they needed to, they wrote on wooden boards covered with layers of wax. They used a wooden pen called a stylus with a sharp end for writing and a flat end for 'rubbing out'. The wax was melted and reapplied from time to time.

Greek Armour

This is some of thearmour they wouldhave worn.

Greek Theatre

• Plays were first performed in to honour a god called Dionysus

• He was the god of wine and theatre.

• Women were not able to take part in plays but they could watch them even though it was disapproved of.

Main Gods

• This next bit of the power point is about Greek Gods.

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Nike

• Nike was the Greek goddess of victory. Little is known about Nike. In fact, there are very few stories about her, and the ones that do exist are often about the Greek word "Nike", meaning victory. But Nike nonetheless survived and found her way into modern-day life. A certain shoe company happens to be named after the Greek goddess of victory.

Athena

• Athena was the goddess of wisdom. She also was the goddess of handicrafts and strategy. She did not like to fight, but when forced to, she always won. She hated Ares and took pleasure in thwarting him on the battle field.

Rhea

• Rhea was the mother of six of the more recent gods. Her only true role was to be the wife of Cronus. When five of her children were swallowed, she saved Zeus and helped him to de-throne Cronus.

Hera

• Hera was the queen of the gods. She was very jealous, but with a husband like Zeus, who was with other women six days a week, who could blame her? She was also the goddess of married women.

Hestia

• Hestia was the goddess of the hearth. She had only one temple, but was worshipped in every home by the fire. This also made her the goddess of the family.

Eros

• Eros was the god of love. Unlike Aphrodite, he was the god of pure love. He has made his way into modern day Valentine's Day celebrations. Eros had arrows which could infect anyone pierced by them with love.

• Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty. Most stories involving her are about two people getting married. She was very jealous, and anyone who thought and announced that they were more beautiful then her often felt her anger.

Aphrodite

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The Olympics • The Olympic Games began over 2,700

years ago in Olympia, in southwest Greece. The Games were part of a religious festival. The Greek Olympics, thought to have begun in 776 BC, inspired the modern Olympic Games (begun in 1896) The Games were held in honour of Zeus, king of the gods, and were staged every four years at Olympia, a valley near a city called Elis. People from all over the Greek world came to watch and take part.

Greek Slaves

• Slaves were very important to the ancient Greek way of life. Slaves cleaned and cooked, worked in the fields, factories, shops, in the mines, and on ships. Even the police force in ancient Athens was made up of slaves! Most slaves lives were not that different from a poor Greek citizen's life.

• There were things slaves could not do. They could not go to school, or enter politics, or use their own name. They were given a name by the citizen who owned them. They were the property of their owner, not citizens of ancient Greece

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