Everyday Life in Ancient Greece
In Ancient Greece people had to do what they needed to survive. Often times, you would find men out fighting or training as soldiers and women at home on the loom. If men weren't soldiers, you might would find them studying philosophy, or acting. Women in Ancient Greece weren't allowed to be actresses but they were allowed to be a priestess. They would get their jobs based upon what they needed to survive. If they needed more food, they would grow grapes, olives, and wheat.
Grains, fruits, and vegetables were very important to the ancient Greek people. With the grapes they could just eat them or make them into wine for drinking. They would grow wheat and barley, pound it out, and bake the paste into bread.
They also used the foods in the celebrations they held throughout the year. These festivals were for holidays like Dionysia, Anthesteria, Danathena, and Thesmophia. All of these holidays were to celebrate their religious figures. The foods were used as offerings and awards in competitions.
If you wanted to visit your gods on a more personal level you could visit their temples. On the outside you would find grand columns holding it up. These columns, Greece is very well known for its different columns which were often Doric (tall, very sturdy, and plainly decorated), Ionic (a little more intricately decorated), or Corinthian. Corinthian style were more seen in Rome but they were still present. One city-state head where you could find many types of any architecture is Acropolis and is still standing today.
On the inside of the temples, you may find people sleeping. Temples were a place you could send your sick and as they slept, they dream. They believed if you were visited by the God's in your dreams, you were healed of any and all diseases. Diseases were pretty common and often included leprosy, plague, and gonorrhea Ancient Greece was not a lawless society that let people run around out of control. In fact, they were very orderly. Greece's government depended on the city-state you lived in. It often included monarchies, oligarchies, and democracies. They were all united under one type of currency. You had six obols, which changed into one drachma. One hundred drachma equals one mina. 600 Mina is the same as one talent. Finally, one talent is equal to fifty-seven pounds of silver. You had different types of laws, as well. There were laws that even included how far two houses have to be from each other. Other examples included rape, thievery, and murder. Most of the time you were made to pay a fine depending on what law you broke. If you stole something, the amount of money you had to pay depended on how much you stole. Rape was equal to one hundred drachmas.
Grains, fruits, and vegetables were very important to the ancient Greek people. With the grapes they could just eat them or make them into wine for drinking. They would grow wheat and barley, pound it out, and bake the paste into bread.
They also used the foods in the celebrations they held throughout the year. These festivals were for holidays like Dionysia, Anthesteria, Danathena, and Thesmophia. All of these holidays were to celebrate their religious figures. The foods were used as offerings and awards in competitions.
If you wanted to visit your gods on a more personal level you could visit their temples. On the outside you would find grand columns holding it up. These columns, Greece is very well known for its different columns which were often Doric (tall, very sturdy, and plainly decorated), Ionic (a little more intricately decorated), or Corinthian. Corinthian style were more seen in Rome but they were still present. One city-state head where you could find many types of any architecture is Acropolis and is still standing today.
On the inside of the temples, you may find people sleeping. Temples were a place you could send your sick and as they slept, they dream. They believed if you were visited by the God's in your dreams, you were healed of any and all diseases. Diseases were pretty common and often included leprosy, plague, and gonorrhea Ancient Greece was not a lawless society that let people run around out of control. In fact, they were very orderly. Greece's government depended on the city-state you lived in. It often included monarchies, oligarchies, and democracies. They were all united under one type of currency. You had six obols, which changed into one drachma. One hundred drachma equals one mina. 600 Mina is the same as one talent. Finally, one talent is equal to fifty-seven pounds of silver. You had different types of laws, as well. There were laws that even included how far two houses have to be from each other. Other examples included rape, thievery, and murder. Most of the time you were made to pay a fine depending on what law you broke. If you stole something, the amount of money you had to pay depended on how much you stole. Rape was equal to one hundred drachmas.