Polish students from the e-twinning programme "Filming My Life" present their partners' country

3. The Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens
The White Tower of Thessaloniki
Hagia Sophia
The Roman-era Rotunda in Thessaloniki.

4. Mystras Palace, remain of the Despotate of the Morea.
A view of Mount Olympus
Church Santorini

5. Theatre was born in Greece.]The city-state of Classical Athens, which became a significant
cultural, political, and military power during this period, was its centre, where it was
instititionalised as part of a festival called the Dionysosa which honoured the
god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 6th century BC), comedy (486 BC), and satyr the play were
the three dramatic generes to emerge there.
During the Byzantine period, the theatrical art was heavily declined. According to Marios
Ploritis, the only form survived was the folk theatre (Mimos and Pantomimos), despite the
hostility of the official state. Later, during the Ottoman period, the main theatrical folk art
was the Karagiozis. The renaissance which led to the modern Greek theatre, took place in
the Venetian Crete. Significal dramatists include Vitsentzos Kornaros and Georgios
Chortatzis.
The modern Greek theatre was born after the Greek independence, in the early 19th
century, and initially was influenced by the Heptanesean theatre and melodrama, such as
the Italian opera. The Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù was the first theatre
and opera house of modern Greece and the place where the first Greek opera, Spyridon
Xyndas' The Parliamentary Candidate (based on an exclusively Greek libretto) was
performed. During the late 19th and early 20th century, the Athenian theatre scene was
dominated by revues, musical comedies, operettas and nocturnes and notable playwrights
included Spyridon Samaras, Dionysios Lavrangas, Theophrastos Sakellaridis and others.

6. Greek vocal music extends far back into ancient times where mixed-
gender choruses performed for entertainment, celebration and spiritual
reasons. Instruments during that period included the double-
reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the
special kind called a kithara. Music played an important role in the
education system during ancient times. Boys were taught music from the
age of six. Later influences from the Roman Empire , Middle East,
and the Byzantine Empire also had effect on Greek music.
Maria Callas
Manos
Hatzidakis
Mikis
Theodorakis

9. Zeus
The numerous gods of the ancient Greek religion as
well as the mythical heroes and events of the ancient
Greek epics (The Odyssey and The Iliad) and other
pieces of art and literature from the time make up what
is nowadays colloquially referred to as Greek
mythology. Apart from serving a religious function, the
mythology of the ancient Greek world also served a
cosmological role as it was meant to try to explain how
the world was formed and operated.
The principal gods of the ancient Greek religion were
the Dodekatheon, or the Twelve Gods, who lived on the
top of Mount Olympus. The most important of all
ancient Greek gods was Zeus, the king of the gods,
who was married to Hera, who was also Zeus's sister.
The other Greek gods that made up the Twelve
Olympians were Demeter, Hades, Ares, Poseidon, Athe
na, Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hephaestus a
nd Hermes. Apart from these twelve gods, Greeks also
had a variety of other mystical beliefs, such
as nymphs and other magical creatures.

10. Marta Zakrzewska
Patrycja Bończak

11. GREECE

12. Hellenic Republic – is a country in Southern Europe and Balkans. According
to the 2011 census, Greece's population is around 11 million. Athens is the
nation's capital and largest city.
The country consists of nine
geographic regions: Macedonia,
Central Greece, the Peloponnese,
Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands
(including the Dodecanese and
Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the
Ionian Islands.

13. Since 2002 . Greece abandoned its own currency , the euro.
Old currency in Greece was drachma.

14. Monuments
Greece
• The Parthenon on the Acropolis of
Athens
• Mystras Palace
• Hagia Sophia
• Rotunda inThessaloniki.

15. Authors:
-Mateusz Kwestarz
-Daniel
Kaźmierczak

16. GREECE

17. Greece is a country
in Southern Europe and
Balkans. According to the
2011 census, Greece's
population is around 11
million. Athens is the nation's
capital and largest city.
Greece is strategically located
at the crossroads of Europe,
Asia and Africa.
GREECE

18. Food
GEMIST
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PASTICIO

19. Mythology
Greek mythology is the body
of myths and teachings that
belong to the ancient
Greeks, concerning
their godsand heroes, the
nature of the world, and the
origins and significance of
theiraown cult and ritual pra
ctice. It was a part of
the religion in ancient
Greece.

20. HERA

21. The End

23. HISTORY
THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF HUMAN ANCESTORS IN THE BALKANS,
DATED TO 270,000 BC, IS TO BE FOUND IN THE PETRALONA CAVE, IN THE NORTHERN
GREEK PROVINCE OF MACEDONIA. ALL THREE STAGES OF THE STONE AGE (PALEOLITHIC,
MESOLITHIC, AND NEOLITHIC) ARE REPRESENTED IN GREECE. FRANCHTHI CAVE IS ONE
OF THE BETTER KNOWN EXAMPLES OF THIS ERA, AS IT WAS OCCUPIED DURING ALL THREE
OF THESE PHASES. NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENTS IN GREECE, DATING FROM THE 7TH
MILLENNIUM BC, ARE THE OLDEST IN EUROPE BY SEVERAL CENTURIES, AS GREECE LIES
ON THE ROUTE VIA WHICH FARMING SPREAD FROM THE NEAR EAST TO EUROPE.

24. FAMOUS BUILDINGS

25. FAMOUS SINGERS:
DEMIS ROUSSOS JORGOS DALARAS

26. ARNI – LAMB MOUSAKA -
MUSAKA
Typical Greek Food