ANCIENT GREECE

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC[citation needed] to the end of antiquity (c. 600 AD). Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.

ANCIENT GREECE FACTS

• "The term Ancient, or Archaic, Greece refers to the time three centuries before the classical age.-history.com
• "Ancient Greece is called 'the birthplace of Western civilization."About 2500 years ago, the Greeks created a way of life that other people admired and copied." -bbc.co.uk.com
• In Ancient Greece A father could decide whether or not they kept a new baby.

GODS AND HEROES

• The Greeks believed that gods and goddesses watched over them. The gods were like humans, but immortal (they lived for ever) and much more powerful.-bbc.co.uk.com
• All of the gods also lived in a cloud palace above mount Olympus.
• The gods did not always behave very well. Their king, Zeus, was always being unfaithful to his wife Hera. He appeared on Earth as a human or an animal to trick women he had fallen in love with.- bbc.co.uk.com

MORE INFO ABOUT ZUES

• Zeus and his family Zeus was king of the gods. He threw thunderbolts to punish anyone who disobeyed him. His brother Poseidon was god of the sea. Another brother, Pluto (also called Hades), ruled the underworld. Zeus had many children, among them Apollo, Artemis, Athena and Ares. Apollo was the sun god, and the god of the arts, medicine, music and poetry. His twin sister Artemis was goddess of the moon, and goddess of childbirth, and of all natural things. She is often shown as a hunter with a bow and arrow. Athena was goddess of wisdom, and of crafts such as spinning, weaving and pottery. Ares was the bad-tempered god of war - not even his own father liked him!- bbc.co.uk.com