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Ancient Ancient GreeceGreece

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Zeus symboled: The thunderbolt, eagle and the oak tree and he was the king of the gods.

Hera symboled: The pomegrant and the peacock and she was the god of marriage and children

Poseidon symboled: The trident, dolphins and horses and was the god of the seas.

Demeter symdoled: A sheaf of wheat or barley and she represented all plants , day and night.

Aphrodite symboled: The roses, doves sparrows, dolphins and rams and she represented loveand beauty

Ares symboled: A burning torch ,spear , dogs and vultures and represented the war

Artemis symboled: Cypress tree, deer and dogs and she represented the hunting and the moon

Apollo symboled: The laurel tree and he was the god of light, sun and music

Hermes symboled: The winged hat and the sandals and he was the masenger of the gods and the transport.

Athene symboled: The owl and the olive tree and she was the goddess of hunting and the moon.

Dionysus symboled: a very special stuff caled thyrsus the wine and he was the god of theater and wine

The Greeks also

believed in people

they called them

heroes.

The heroes were not gods, they were humans who behaved and acted like gods.

The heroes

were and brave

and had exiting

adventures.

One of the heroes

was called Perseus.

He had killed a terrible monster.

The terrible monster

was called:

Medusa.

Perseus Perseus

The Greeks believed that dead people went to live in the

underworld.

The god, Hades, ruled underworld.

The body of a dead person was washed and performed. Then it was wrapped in material and flowers were put by the head.

It was laid on a bead with its feet nearest the door because it was going to journey.

A coin was placed under the dead person's tongue. It was meant for charon, the ferryman who took the dead across the River Styx to the underworld.

A story from the underworld is of

Dimiter and Persephone.

This story explains that when Persephone was in the underworld it was winter and when she was with Demeter it was summer, spring and autumn.

In winter Persephone had to go to the underworld because Hades god of underworld was in love with her.

Zeus god of all gods and goddesses and Hermes messenger of gods and god of traveling and thieves also were in this story.

There are more

stories that take place

in the underworld.

Greeks believed Greeks believed that gods sent that gods sent messages about the messages about the futurefuture Those were called Those were called

OraclesOracles

Gods sent those Gods sent those massages to the priests or massages to the priests or priestess and then passed priestess and then passed it to ordinary peopleit to ordinary people

They were like They were like this, they this, they figured the figured the futurefuture

People from all around Grece People from all around Grece came to visit these came to visit these priestessespriestesses

Apollo's OracleApollo's Oracle

Delphi was the grates and Delphi was the grates and most sacred temple of them all, most sacred temple of them all, it was said that Apollo sent his it was said that Apollo sent his magic eagles to find the center magic eagles to find the center of the universeand the eagles of the universeand the eagles meat in a mountain called meat in a mountain called DelphiDelphi

Apollos temple Apollos temple was the most was the most sacred of allsacred of all

Each god had a city for himself but Each god had a city for himself but they were all honoured the same they were all honoured the same wayway

Zeus was the god of gods Zeus was the god of gods and goddesses. His wife and goddesses. His wife was Herawas Hera

To enter and To enter and see the see the Oracle you Oracle you first pay a fee first pay a fee ( to help ( to help maintain maintain Delphi) and Delphi) and sacrifice a sacrifice a goat to the goat to the gods but gods but before killing before killing it you first it you first had to do had to do some stepssome steps

First you had to sprinkle First you had to sprinkle some water on top of the some water on top of the goat if it shivered as it goat if it shivered as it always did that was a sign always did that was a sign the god was willing to the god was willing to speakspeak

Then the prophetess then Then the prophetess then purified herself at a spring and purified herself at a spring and entered the temple entered the temple

Where she chewed laurel leaves Where she chewed laurel leaves and burned barley flowers at and burned barley flowers at the altarthe altar

Decending to an Decending to an underground part of underground part of the temple, she entered the temple, she entered a small room where a small room where she could be heared she could be heared but not seembut not seem

She sat upon the She sat upon the prophetic stool and prophetic stool and gave her answer to gave her answer to the questionthe question

Priestesses couldn`t answer questions during Priestesses couldn`t answer questions during winter because Apollo sun god wasn`t here so winter because Apollo sun god wasn`t here so Dionysus took his place and large festivals Dionysus took his place and large festivals ocuredocured

Delphi is now just a Delphi is now just a field of stone broken field of stone broken colums are there but colums are there but pictures describe pictures describe what once was a what once was a miracle for Grece, miracle for Grece, fulled with turistsfulled with turists

Hera, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Athena, Apolo, Artemest, Lionrses, Teaphesus, Aphrodite, Hermes and Demeter

The gods and goddesses lived in Mount Olympus were

In Gece there is mountain calred Mount Oolimus. The people thogught that there was a God for everithing like Poceidon the water or Hades the underworld. They also thought that the imortals came from Gia the Earth andr Uranos the sky.

Uranos

Gia

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