Greek Theatre

Drama was one of the Greeks greatest inventions. It settled them down and entertained them.

During acting, if the actors did a poor job, the audience would either throw food or stones at the bad performances. If you looked from above the Greek theatre, it would look like a semi-circle with bleachers and a stage and a back stage. They could fit as many as 15 000 at capactiy.

Greek Shelter

Greek homes were usually made out of mud, brick, stone or straw. wealthy Greeks built huge marble towers as their homes to honer the Greek gods. the Greek spent less time in the house and more time outside and at work.

In Greece homes were used to keep the people warm in the winter and cool in the summer.In the homes the woman of the house set aside a room for the men of the house and a room for the women of the house.

The women's room was called a Gynaikon and the men's room was called an Andron. usually the oldest woman of the house would be the boss of the house and she had the right to kick a man or woman out because of Miss-behavior.

Greek Education

The future of a Greek child only depends on its father. If its father decides it is a bad child he will leave him on top of a mountain. If it was a good child the father and mother would raise it to be a normal Greek. Greek kids learned pretty much the same subjects that we take.

For example the Greeks take math, architecture, poetry, social, L.A. and science as their core subjects. Greek teachers were often very strict with the kind of behaviour going on in their classroom. If the children refused to listen the teacher would send them home.

In Sparta, children started military training at age seven and in all of Ancient Greece the poor children would not have to go to school because helping their families around the house was more important those days.