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By Joseph and Winifred
Lomo
• Hello my name is Lomo and this our power
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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
scary!
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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.
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Row ,row,
row your
boat, gently
down the sea.
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.
War
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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 the
armour they would
have 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
• 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.
Greek Temple
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Trogon Horse.
Our names in Greek
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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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