1. Ancient Greece
Coloring book
By: MYP1: Katie, Amber, Nick, Martina,
And Christina

2. Greek religions and mythology
Although the ancient Greeks were very religious, they did not follow a strict set of rules as most modern
religions do today. The ancient Greeks only prayed to the gods that they found most useful, whether it
was just at the moment or always.
Some of the Greek gods that they worshiped were: Poseidon, Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, and Hades.
Poseidon was the god of the sea and everything that is in it. Zeus was the god of the sky and ruler of all
the gods. Hades was the god of the underworld and was in charge of making sure that the souls passed
safely in to the underworld. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and battle strategy. She preferred to stay
out of the arguments that would brake on mount Olympus. Aphrodite was the goddess of beauty and love.
Poseidon Athena
Zeus Aphrodite

3. The ancient Greeks prayed to each god or goddess in a different way. If you were praying to a
sky god like the sea Zeus, they would have to be facing east. To pray to a sea god like Poseidon,
they would have to be facing. To pray to a god in the underworld, like Hades, They had to have
both palms facing downwards. However, most of the gods and goddesses were addressed by
having their arms facing upwards towards the heavens.
Each god and goddess had his or her own symbol that people could recognize them by. For
example Athena’s symbols were the owl and the olive tree. Zeus’s symbols were the thunder
bolt, eagle, and oak tree. Aphrodite’s symbols were the rose, dolphin, sparrow, ram, and dove.
The symbols were very sacred to them and they got extremely angry if they were treated poorly
by people for fun.
Eagle Owl
Rose
The Greek gods were said to have lived on mount Olympus and were called the Olympians.
These were the second set of gods, before them were the titans.
The ancient Greeks used mythology to describe what we use science for today. For example,
they said the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening was Apollo, the Greek god of
prophecy, Intellectual pursuit, music, healing, plague, and the sun, caring the sun in golden
chariot across the sky. The ancient Greeks used mythology to tell many things like how the day
turned to night, how the world began, how the seasons changed and how they began, among
many other things.

4. Education and schooling
Compared to today’s schooling system, schooling was in ancient Greece was unfair because boys
were the only ones who were allowed to go to school, but the ancient Greeks thought that it was
fair because that was their way of life back then. The girls were expected to help their mothers
with chores around the house or not far from home, and then when they have reached the write
age, get married off to a man. It was because of this that the ancient Greeks didn’t allow the girls
to go to school. The only ways that girls could learn to read and write, although it was rare, was
if their mother knew how to read and write and then could teach their daughter or daughters.
The boys schooling system was split up into three schools. At
the first school, they were taught reading, writing, and
arithmetic’s by a teacher called a grammatistes. At the second
school, they were taught the art of poetry and music by a
teacher called a Kitharists. At the third school, they were
taught dancing and athletics by a teacher called a Paidotribes.
School began at the age of seven but it was not free education.
Most of the boys that were able to go to school only got the
basic education. Richer boys were able to stay in school longer
and could stay until the age of eighteen.
Higher education
From the 5th century BC, teachers called Sophist travelled from city to city training young men in
the art of speech.
Festivity
Festivals were not held just to compete or to have a good time, but they were an important part of
worshiping gods. Festivals in Ancient Greece occurred every year, or every two, four or even
eight years. As I said before most of them had something to do with Greek gods. In Athens alone
there were 60 days in a year set aside for festivals. That would be cool if we had 60 days set for
just festivals in Barbados.

5. In your home Country there are Festivals, In Ancient Greece there were very popular festivals.
There were many festivals and among them there was the Theatre Festival was part of the spring
Festival. They are basically joined together. The theatre Festival was a festival Celebrating
Drama in Greece, an interesting fact is that Drama was invented In Athens, Greece for part of the
spring festival honored for God Dionysus. At the time of Pericles, the city’s semicircular theatre
could hold over 10,000 people, and performances were held once a month. These events began at
dawn and lasted the whole day, with several plays being performed, they must have been happy
when the festival was over. There were serious dramas called: tragedies, and boisterous often
vulgar plays known as comedies. In a tragedy, three actors played all various speaking roles, and
changed their masks.
List of Major Festivals:
1) Anthersia was the festival of Dionysus and the new wine held in the spring of Athens.
2) Greater Dionysia was also celebrated in Athens in the spring to honor Dionysus and had
drama competitions and general merry making that
lasted over a day.
3) Lenaea was a festival of comedy in January which had
drama competitions.
4) Rural Dionysian was celebrated in December in areas
outside Athens. It included drama competitions, songs,
dances and feasts. Something I’d enjoy
5) The Thargelia festival occurred in May and celebrated
Apollo and the new harvest.
6) The Pyanopsia was a bean festival in October which
honored Apollo and the Horae, goddesses of the
seasons. With an offering of bean stew.
There you go that is Greek Festivals for you! If you want to learn more SEARCH IT, you’d be
surprised how amazing Ancient Greece was.

6. Ancient Greek Clothing
Men
In ancient Greece, men wore tunics, sleeveless dress-
like cloth made of wool or linen. They liked to wear
them one-shouldered, and if it was cold they wore a
wool chlamys, or cloak. The tunics were usually knee-
length or shorter, but occaisonally worn ankle length.
Women
Women wore one large piece of wool or linen, pinned and wrapped
various ways to make them stay. These were called chitons. Chitons
were worn by both women and teenagers. If the wearer was rich, they
would be dyed in many beautiful colors.

7. How to make a chiton
This was the most fashionable way to pin the chiton. First, you would wrap the cloth around you
over one shoulder and pin it in place. Then, you would take the piece pinned around your
shoulder, and pin it on the other side to form two straps. The left side of the dress was kept
closed with a leather or rope belt.

8. War fair
The ancient Greek city state fought each other over land and trade. Sparta had a full time army
but the others city states trained free born men to fight and called them up in times war. In
Athens, men aged between 20 and 50 had to defend their state whenever necessary. Greeks who
could afford horses usually joined the Calvary but most surveyed as foot soldier’s called
hoplites.
Olympics
In 776 bc the ancient Greeks held the first athletic competitions at Olympia, an area sacred to the
god Zeus. They started having these competitions every 4 years. Men from all over Greece
competed for the honor of their city-state. At first the ancient Olympics was just a one day
running event. It later developed into a five day
compotation in running, jumping, wrestling and
javelin throwing. The winner was awarded an
olive crown to where upon his head.