1. Daily Life in Ancient Greek
By JeongMin
The Parthenon

2. Map
 The Ancient Greek started in 400 B.C. Then it
ended in 146 B.C. for they have been conquered
by the Romans

3. Background
 There is a lot of things
interesting about Ancient
Greece. First thing is that
Ancient Greece was the
beginning of the Olympics (slide
festival). Secondly, Ancient
Greece has very good myth (slide
gods). Thirdly, one of the famous
temples is in Athens, the
Parthenon. The Parthenon is one
of those temples used to worship
a god, or in this case, goddess.
This temple was made for
Athena, goddess of wisdom and
war.

4. Social Structure
The social structures was
divided into 4 sections in
Ancient Athens. These
sections were only for men
who are not a slave, native,
and owns land can be on the
Highest social structure. This social
structure depended on how
much money they had.
Lowest

5. Housing
Farmer’s house structure will have walls
made of thick rocks and the ceiling is
covered with clay tiles. There are only
three rooms, bedroom, living room, and
a storage filled with farming tools and
food.
In, town, your house will hold about 9
other families than you. There will be
varieties of rooms including family
bedrooms, family living rooms, women’s
room, kitchen, storage, and a workshop.
For protection, there would be high walls
and strong gates. These houses had
different purposes and they are: cooking,
entertainment, storage, and working on
the job that you do.

6. Food
Ancient Greek ate things
that are very simple to
make or get. For example,
you might live on a farm
and get some grapes and
olives. You might be raising
a goat and soon turn it into
milk or cheese. You might
live near the sea and get
fish or shellfish. You might
even make bread out of
grains.

7. Family Life
The male adult is in charge of the
family. They had a lot of power such
as sending their children away to be
adopted by another people or divorce
their wife for new ones. Some people
like the women were not even
allowed to own properties, but they
had a lot of responsibilities. For
example, they were the key to give
birth to children so their family can
continue. They had other
responsibilities such as running the
house and, if poor, do the
housework.

8. Marriage
Marriage happened differently for
people who are poor or rich. If you
are poor, you would fall in love as you
are working together. If you are rich
and a girl, your marriage will be
arranged for you. In the actual
marriage, the bride offers something
the Artemis, the goddess of women.
Then the groom and bride will go to
groom’s house. The bride’s house will
send a portion of their fortune so the
bride will live happily. After their
married, they might divorce. The
bride doesn’t have any rights on a
divorce but groom can choose
whatever the bride says.

9. Childhood
 Some of the young babies die in a
young age and some are
abandoned in places such as the
mountains. Those abandoned
babies can be raised as a slave. In
other case, they grow up and the
girls learn from their mother how
to do all the house work. The boys
follow their father around to learn
what to do or they are brought to
school in age 7. The girls gets
married in age 12 or 13. When this
time comes, girls put their toys in
the temple of Artemis while boys
go to train for war in age 18.

10. Education
 Athens education were private
but Sparta had public schools.
Boys learned how to read,
write, play an instrument,
sing, and work in the military.
Education were only for boys
only which means that girls
had no access to education.

11. Religion
 They believed in 12 gods
and goddess of Olympus
because they believed that
those 12 gods and goddess
will make their life better
later on in their lives. There
were temples that Greek
can pray in for good luck, a
wish that they wanted the
gods to grant, or to leave a
present to please the gods.

12. God
 There were 12 different gods and
goddesses in total. There was Zeus,
Hera, Apollo, Arthemis, Athena,
Hades, Poseidon, Dameter, Ares,
Aphrodites, Hephastus, and
Hermes. They were described to
have the personality of normal
people and symbolizes something.
Apollo, for example, symbolizes the
sun, music, poetry, and so on.
Greek people worshipped these
gods and they made up myths to
described why the thunder striked
and where the dead people went,
and so on.

13. Clothing
Clothing of Ancient Greek is very
interesting. First of all, Greek men wore
only few clothing or none at all. Few of the
times that Greek men wore clothing were
when there were women around. In the
other hand, Greek women were always
covered with clothing.
Greek clothing were very simple and used
a little bit of sewing. These clothing were
called tunics. Greek usually walked
around bare-foot, but there were some
cases where they wore shoes, when the
ground was rough. These shoes were
simple just like their other clothing. If you
were rich, you would be wearing gold
jewelleries.

14. Art and Music
In Ancient Greek, people had
entertainment such as music,
dancing, and theatre. First of all,
in theatre, there were only male
actors. So if there was a woman’s
part, a man will act it out. In
music, they had lots of musical
instruments such as the lyre,
tambourine, double flute,
panpipes, and kithara. Dancing
was the most important art and
both men and women did this
part of art.

15. Festivals
 One of the popular festivals that they had was the Olympics. We
still have it today. It is simply: athletes train on sports such as
long jump, javelin, discus, wrestling, and boxing. The Olympics
were only celebrated by native-men. If they broke a rule once,
they were also kicked out of the game. Some of the rules that
they had were no weapons , no fighting, accidental or on
purpose, ect …

16. Conclusion
All in all, I think Ancient Greek’s life was very exciting with all that
festivals and entertainment. I also think all the other things that
they do in life is interesting. Ancient Greek is fascinating with all
the details such as women didn’t have the same rights as the men
to they squashed the grapes with their feet to make wine.

17. Information Bibliography
 Fiona Macdonald, How Would You Survive As an Ancient Greece?
New York, Franklin Watts Production, 1995
 Ancient Greece -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Education
 Ancient Greek Gods - http://www.woodlands-
junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/greece/greekgods.htm
 Children of Ancient Greece -
http://historylink102.com/greece3/children.htm

18. Picture Bibliography
 The Parthenon - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/135115501/
 The Map of Ancient Greece- http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps1120428-28535.html
 Bread- http://www.ultimate-guide-to-greek-food.com/greek-bread.html
 Grapes- http://old.ort.org.il/year/eshavuot/shav4.htm
 Togas - http://visual.merriam-webster.com/clothing-articles/clothing/elements-ancient-costume_1.php
 Housing – http://havoc20.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/stone-textures/
 Family - http://keep3.sjfc.edu/students/bef03424/e-port/virtual%20learning%20environment.html
 Childhood - http://create2xs.com/?p=429
 Marriage - http://greek-myth.com/demeter_persephone.htm
 Zeus - http://www.noholidaynolife.com/2010/08/15/the-story-of-the-minotaur-knossos-crete/
 Lyre - http://www.clker.com/clipart-26260.html