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Some Greek instruments used for music are the
Aulos
Cithara
This is a wood
wind instrument
wear you blow
through the
instrument an
play music by
covering the
holes.
This is a
string
instrument
used with
your fingers
to create
sound.
•Greek music was played at festivals and
parties.
•All the parents and kids would do traditional
Greek dancing as the music plays.
• For entertainment the ancient Greek would
party, play music, listen to stories or watch
naked women dance.
• They would listen to poets or write poetry.
• They would go to plays and each play had lots
of meaning to them.
Laws
• Courts and Judicial System In order to have punishments carried out,
the Ancient Greeks needed some sort of system to "try," "convict," and
"sentence" guilty persons. To do this, they created a court system.
• Ancient Greek courts were cheap and run by what people today would
call amateurs.
• Court officials were paid little, if anything, and most trials were
completed in the same day, private cases even more quickly.
• There were no "professional" court officials, no lawyers, and no official
judges. A normal case consisted of two "litigants," one who argued
that an unlawful act was committed, and the other argued his defense.
The audience, or "jurors," would vote for one side or the other. The
result was either a guilty or not guilty, after which another vote by the
jury would decide the punishment.
Laws
• Law givers were not rulers or kings, but
appointed officials whose only job was to write
laws.
• Most of the lawgivers were middle class
members of the aristocracy.
• The officials in the government wanted to make
sure that law givers would not take sides or be a
part of just one group, otherwise laws might be
unfair. Because of this, law givers were not a part
of normal government, and they were considered
political outsiders.
Government
• Athenian Assembly was called the Ecclesia.
• Ecclesia is the term used for the assembly in
Greek polis (city).
• The ecclesia was a meeting place where the
citizens could speak their minds and try to
influence one another in the political process.
• This is the birth place of democracy.
Government
• Normally at Athens, the Ecclesia assembled at
the Pnyx (an open-air auditorium west of the
Acropolis with a retaining wall, orator's stand,
and an altar), but it was one of the jobs of the
Boule's Prytaneis (leaders) to post the agenda
and location of the next meeting of the
Assembly.
• On the Pandia ('All Zeus' festival) the Assembly
met in the Theatre of Dionysus.
-When kids were 7 they were put into a military camp
and trained for 13 years until they could be a soldier
to fight.
-At 20 they became a soldier and spent their
entire lives with their fellow home dawg nugget
biscuits.
-Each soldier was granted a piece of
land which they didn’t see a lot and it
was farmed by a helots.
-They didn’t get to leave the military
until they were 60, if they survived
-These schools taught toughness,
discipline, endurance of pain (often
severe pain), and survival skills.
-They would marry but they would
never be with the wife after they
married.
-They didn’t get to go to stay home until
they were 30 when they were known as an
equal even though he was still in the
military.
-The Spartan’s life was full of
discipline, self-denial, and
simplicity.
-The cities in Greek would have conflicts with each such as Sparta
against Athens but Sparta had the toughest fighter
They also fought neighboring countries such as Persia.
The Shield- The hoplites used the
shield to defend himself and usually
to break his enemies weapon.
Spear- The hoplites used the spear to
throw or to stab an enemy while
covering himself with his shield.
Ballista- The ballista was a weapon that
could shoot multiple arrows at once from
long ranges.
Dagger/sword- They hoplites
carried a dagger or a sword so if
they threw their spear or it was
broken the could still defend and
kill.
Catapult- It was used to throw
stones or large objects at
multiple enemies.
-The ancient Olympics were a lot different from the
modern Olympics.
-There was less events, and only free men who
spoke Greek could compete, instead of athletes
from any country.
-Also, the games were always held at Olympia
instead of moving around to different countries
every time.
Boxing- There were different rules in boxing then because
they didn’t have a weight class and they fought until then
other person was knocked out.
Chariot Racing- There were 2 horse and 4 horse races
where they would do 12 laps around the course (9
miles).
Pankration- It was like kick boxing except there
wasn’t as many rules and you didn’t rap your hands.
Discus-The discus was made of stone, iron, bronze, or lead, and
was shaped like a flying saucer. They had different sizes for the
boys though because men could lift more.
Running-There were 4 types of races at Olympia. Runners sprinted for 1
stade (192 m.), or the length of the stadium. The other races were a 2stade race (384 m.), and a long-distance run which ranged from 7 to 24
stades(1,344 m. to 4,608 m.).
There was also a 2 to 4-stades (384 m. to 768 m.) race by
athletes in armor. The armor weighed from 50-60 lbs.
Wrestling- needed to throw their opponent out of the ring 3 times either
landing on a hip, shoulder, or back for a fair fall to win the match.
Biting was not allowed, and genital holds were also illegal. Attacks
such as breaking your opponent's fingers were permitted.
-There is nothing really known about the ancient Greek
economy except literary works, such as legal speeches,
philosophical dialogues and treatises, historical narratives, and
dramas and other poetic writings. Demosthenes, Lysias,
Isokrates, and other Attic Orators have left us with economic
matters.
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Religion in Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greek religion surrounds a collection of beliefs and rituals that were practiced in
Greece by two forms. One being favourite public religion and the other in cult practices.
Religious Beliefs
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Ancient Greek people shared some common beliefs. They believed in theology which is based
on polytheism. They also believed in an underworld where your spirit went after you passed
on. Their religion also had a broad mythology which mainly consisted of the gods and how
they affected people on Earth. Greece also hosted different religious festivals and games.
There were yearly games which climaxed to the Olympic games. The games were held every
4 years to celebrate Zeus. Greeks had morality. They feared committing hubris which meant
harmful acts to others, mainly if it was to an extreme. Greeks also believed in sacred texts
from Hesiod’s, Homer and odyssey and Pindar’s as well as other works in classic antiquity.
Religious Practices
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Greeks religious practices were ceremonies and rituals performed on alters as well as
sacrifices of domestic animals on alters. Parts of the animal were burned as offering to
certain gods.
Greeks celebrated rites of passage. One of the rites of passage is called Amphidromia when a
child reaches five or seven days old a celebration is held.
Ancient Greek Foods
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At Home: Greeks ate three or four times a day. Men and women ate their meals separately
with the men eating first and women eating later.
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Social Dining: there was the basic social dining with family and friends. There was the all male
banquet called symposium and the social or religious meal called syssitia.
Greek foods
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Breads: cereals, grains such as wheat and barley used to make loaves and flatbreads.
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Fruits and vegetables: cabbage, onions, sweet peas, broad beans, garden peas, grass peas
were boiled or mashed. Figs raisins and pomegranates were important fruits.
Greek foods
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Egg and Diary products: Eggs were collected from quails and hens and were used to create
dishes. Greeks enjoyed dairy products such as milk, cheese from goat’s and ewe’s and yogurt.
They ate fish and used olive oil and honey.
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Drinks: The Greeks main drink was water and milk.
Greek Language
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The ancient Greek language is the historical part in the development of Greek spanning
three periods from 9th century BC to 6th century AD in it’s ancient world. The were the
Archiac then the Classical and then the Hellenistic.
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The language is part of many words in the English vocabulary
Greek Language
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The ancient Greeks believed there to be three main groups of Greek people-Dorians,
Aeolians and Ionians (it includes Athenians) and each had their own distinct dialect,\.
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The three major dialects overshadowed the Arcadian-a mountain dialect and Cyprian- far
from the center of Greek achievements.
Greek Language
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Ancient Greek is still a compulsory or optional subject at the elite or traditional schools in
Europe.
Most major universities worldwide teach Ancient Greek combined with Latin.
Organizations and individuals, mainly Greek, who wish a sign of respect , use Ancient Greek
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