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The Culture of Ancient Greece!
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Greek Mythology

• Believed 12 most important gods lived on Mount
  Olympus.
• Zeus was the main god.
• Believed gods controlled peoples lives.

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Poetry

• The earliest Greek stories were called epics
• Homer, a poet, who wrote the Iliad and the
  Odyssey
• The Iliad has the story of the Trojan horse.

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Aesop

• A Greek Slave who made up fable
• Example Tortoise and the Hare

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Greek Drama

• Two kinds of Greek drama
• Comedies
• Tragedies
• Wore masks to show emotions

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Tragedy

• a person struggles to overcome difficulties but
  fails.
• Unhappy ending

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Comedy

• In this type of story, the ending is happy.

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Greek Art

• Greeks painted on pottery.
• Skilled architects.

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Columns

• Supported Greek buildings
• Three kinds Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
• Many buildings in the United States use columns
  today.

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