Ancient+Greek+Life

 By: chs1caitlin

Greek life One of the most famous rocks in the world is the acropolis in athens capital of greece. Acropolis is a plateau 500 feet high, 870 feet long, and 435 feet wide. The first settlers lived on the acropolis(means high city). As the village grew they built houses and on the acropolis wonderful god temples of their gods and goddesses that they work shiped. Athens seaport (piraeus) is six miles away,a huge city built around the great harbor. Two million people lived here. Which is one fourth of the entire population. Greece includes more than 2 thousand islands. This country is located at the of Balkan Peninsula and surronded by sea except for at the north of greece.

Acropolis: fampous rock building.

mount. Olypus.

Main land was broken up in ranges of high moutains. The people said the godds lived on mount olympus, in golden palaces built by the smith god, Haephestus. Olympus is 9,570 feet high in thessaly. Olympia were they played the olympic games began, is in southern greece a long way from this mountain. Mount Parnassus, in central greece, is associated with inspiration for artists, musicians, and writers because there the legend tells us the muses used to live, with the god apollo as their leader. Under the temple priests called oracle used to chew loarle leaves and breathe vapor from a fissure in the rock until, she became dizzy. Then crying and shouting she answerd concerns and questions and and the priests told them what she had said and what it meant. they believed that Apollo spoke through her.  

Soon the Apollo's temple was destroied by the earthquakes. A villiage was built there in the 1980's, soon the government asked them to move a short distance from the mountain. Archeologists dug and found the ruins of the temple, an ancient outdoor theater, and a stadium were athletic contests were nheld long ago. Travenhling was easier with the ships then land. Almost no one lives more than seventy miles from it. A legendary king names Odysses, or Ulysses whoam fought in the war against troy, and spent ten years trying to go back home. Facts: Athens was one of the principle citystates in ancient greece and still is. In archaic times it was goverened the kings whoam were over thrown eupatrids later on.

Eupatrids-(YOU-pa-tridz)members of the Athenian aristocracy in the 8th century B.C. who over through the kings to take over the cities government from the 8th century B.C., the aristocracytook over the leadership of the city. the athens were dominated by the archons,the archons were rulers and cheif magistrates. in 1624 B.C., the archons Draco drew up the 1st code of written laws in the attempt of the power and protecting the their privlileges. although this caused riots among the population.

Books: Athens life,and, ancient greek