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1. Ancient Greek Will Lanson Chelan Dereck

2. Greek Instruments Some Greek instruments used for music are the AulosCithara 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.

3. Entertainment • 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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'sPrytaneis (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.

8. Spartans -When kids were 7 they were put into a military camp and trained for 13 years until they could be a soldier to fight. -These schools taught toughness, discipline, endurance of pain (often severe pain), and survival skills. -At 20 they became a soldier and spent their entire lives with their fellow home dawg nugget biscuits. -They would marry but they would never be with the wife after they married. -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 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. -They didn’t get to leave the military until they were 60, if they survived

9. Who the Greek fought -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.

10. Greek Weaponry The Shield- The hoplites used the shield to defend himself and usually to break his enemies weapon. 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. Spear- The hoplites used the spear to throw or to stab an enemy while covering himself with his shield. Catapult- It was used to throw stones or large objects at multiple enemies. Ballista- The ballista was a weapon that could shoot multiple arrows at once from long ranges.

11. Ancient Greek sports -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.

12. Olympic Games 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 2-stade race (384 m.), and a long-distance run which ranged from 7 to 24 stades(1,344 m. to 4,608 m.).

13. 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.

14. Ancient Greek economy -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.

15. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM http://www.buzzle.com/articles/ancient-greek-weapons.html http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/sports.html http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/engen.greece

16. Religion in Ancient Greece • 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.

17. Religious Beliefs • 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.

18. Religious Practices • 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.

19. Ancient Greek Foods • 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. • 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.

20. Greek foods • Breads: cereals, grains such as wheat and barley used to make loaves and flatbreads. • Fruits and vegetables: cabbage, onions, sweet peas, broad beans, garden peas, grass peas were boiled or mashed. Figs raisins and pomegranates were important fruits.

21. Greek foods • 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. • Drinks: The Greeks main drink was water and milk.

22. Greek Language • 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. • The language is part of many words in the English vocabulary

23. Greek Language • 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,\. • The three major dialects overshadowed the Arcadian-a mountain dialect and Cyprian- far from the center of Greek achievements.

24. Greek Language • 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 • All information provided on www.wikipedia.org