Greece

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Greece

• PEOPLE
• CULTURE
• FOOD

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People

• Some of the most famous Ancient Greeks
  include
• Plato (c.429-327 BC) - He was a brilliant student
  of Socrates and later carried on his work. He
  gathered Socrates' ideas and wrote them down in a
  book. Plato founded the world's first university.
  He wrote down his teachings and people all over
  the world, even today, study the Greek
  philosophers
• Aristotle (382-322 BC) - discovered many things
  in science and biology. He wrote books about
  physics, poetry, zoology, biology, politics,
  governments, and more. His father was the
  personal physician of the King of Macedonia. When
  Aristotle turned 17, he went to Athens to study
  with Plato.
• Parmenides - watched an eclipse of the Moon in
  about 470 BC, and noticed that the Earth's shadow
  was curved. He worked out that if the shadow was
  curved, then the Earth must be round.
• Archimedes - was a mathematician and an engineer.
  He designed a machine, called the Archimedean
  screw, which could make water flow uphill. His
  design has been used for almost 2,000 years, to
  take water from rivers to the fields. Archimedes
  was able to tell fool's gold from real gold.
• Pythagoras - was a mathematician. Can find out
  about Pythagoras' theorem on right-angled
  triangles.
• Alexander the Great- Alexander the Great was born
  in 356 B.C. in Pella, Macedonia, the son of
  Philip of Macedon, who was an excellent general
  and organizer. He was called 'the Great' because
  he conquered more lands than anyone before him
  and became the overall ruler of Greece.

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Culture

• Who were the Ancient Greeks?
• The earliest Greek civilizations thrived
  nearly 4,000 years ago. Yet, their culture still
  impacts our lives today, in the arts, in
  philosophy, and in science, math, literature and
  politics.Ancient Greece was split into many
  different states, each one was ruled in its own
  way
• When was Ancient Greece?
• The ancient Greece civilization lasted from
  about 800 BC, when the Greeks began to set up
  city states, to 146 BC when the Romans invaded
  Greece.
• Legacy of the Ancient Greeks
• How Ancient Greece influenced modern day
  culture. The influence of the Ancient Greeks are
  still felt by us today. The major impact in our
  lives in the Arts and Sciences can be seen in
  both the past and present day.
• Trial by Jury, Greek Myths Democracy
• ?The word 'democracy' is Greek. It means
  'government by the people. We have a form of
  democracy in the USA, and this is a legacy of the
  Athenians and their assemblies and councils.

• Theatre
• ?The word 'theatre' is Greek. Most modern
  theatres follow the Greek plan.
• The Olympics
• ?The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC
  at the Greek city of Olympia.
• Marathon?
• Pheidippides ran from Athens to Sparta to
  ask for help against the Persians just before the
  Battle of the Marathon (490 BC).? Building
  styles (Architecture)
• Throughout the world, buildings have been
  constructed in the style of Ancient Greece. The
  British Museum is an example of this
• The first alphabet with vowels
• ?The Ancient Greeks played an important part
  in the development of the alphabet. The first two
  letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and beta -
  have given us the word 'alphabet'.

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Food

• Perhaps the most important thing to know
  about Greek food and Greek cuisine is that eating
  out and sharing the dinner is as important as the
  food itself. Greeks even have a special word for
  this paraia a transcendence of the dinner table
  to include conversation, the view, ambiance and
  the overall spirit of place as Lawrence Durrell
  phrased it.
• While the main ingredients of Greek cooking
  are basic and few olive oil, honey, yoghurt,
  fresh fruits and vegetables, lamb and fish. The
  manner in which they are prepared seems to have
  an endless variety and taste.
• There is also an additional delight,
  pretty much unique to Greece, of being invited
  into the kitchen to view the offerings and make
  your selection. There is as well a wonderful
  benefit that the Greek diet provides, whether you
  eat meat or are vegan it is arguably the
  healthiest diet on the planet as well as
  user-friendly to those who want to eat well while
  not having to worry about putting on weight.

The Greek diet was very healthy. Food in Ancient
Greece consisted of grains, wheat, barley, fruit,
vegetables, breads, and cake. The Ancient Greeks
grew olives, grapes, figs and wheat and kept
goats, for milk and cheese. They ate lots of
bread, beans and olives. In the Summer months
there were plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables
to eat and in the winter they ate dried fruit and
food they had stored like apples and lentils. As
most of the Greeks lived very near the sea, they
also ate a lot of fish, squid and shellfish. The
soil by the sea was not so rich as on the plains
so the Greeks used irrigation and crop rotation
to keep the soil relatively fertile. In some of
the larger Greek city-states, meat could be
purchased in cook shops. Meat was rarely eaten as
the Greeks felt that just killing and eating a
domesticated animal (like goats) was wrong. The
Greeks would often sacrifice the meat to the gods
first and then might eat some of the meat.

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Map Of Greece