Ancient Greece Homes and Temples

1. Ancient Greece Homes and Temples By Jessica, Rita, Dylan and Zachary

2. Homes in General • designed to keep people cool in long, hot summers and hold heat in during winters • Women and men stayed in separate parts of the home • Women stayed in deepest parts of the house

3. Inside look on an Ancient Greece Home • Slaves room • Bedroom • Andron • Gynaikon • Bathroom • Store room • Courtyard • Work room • Kitchen

4. Slaves room • Had small rooms to sleep in and little furniture • Rooms for male slaves were grouped around men's dining room • Rooms for female slaves were around woman's quarters

5. Bedroom • The beds were like the couches in the mens dining room • The wooden chests stored clothing

6. Andron • For males • Where they entertained friends and business associates • Symposia’s, or drinking parties, were held there • Women don’t normally enter this room. Only slaves or hired

7. Gynaikon • Women’s dining room • Where they worked on weaving, spinning • Entertained friends • Looked after children • If a male friend forced into here, there will be severe punishments and insults

8. Bathroom & Storeroom Bathroom: • Wealthier people had own bathrooms • Water collected from well or public fountain and heated over fire Storeroom: • Kept storage jars called amphorae, pithoi • Stored olive oil, wine, grain and flour

9. Courtyard • Most Greek houses built around courtyard • Usually an altar to Hestia or very rarely had Hephaestus • Contained a well for clean water

10. Workroom & Kitchen Workroom: • Work shops usually took place in house • Slaves often worked here Kitchen: • cooked Greek food- simple and healthy • Pots in cupboards stored olive oil and grain

11. Temples in Ancient Greece The Good Stuff By Dylan (Hira) and Zach AKA Dark Marshall

12. Purpose of Greek Temples • Temples weren’t places of public worship • They instead represented the homes of an individual god who protected their community

13. Temple Offerings • Although Greek temples weren’t places of places of public worship, offerings were made at temples • The offerings made could include things such as: food, drinks, a proper share of harvest and a share of all trades made • Offerings were made daily

14. Temple Anatomy • Early temples made of wood, later evolved into being made of stone or cast bronze • Grandest god temples made of crystelephantine, a combination of gold and ivory • The most important part of the temple were the pillars on the outside which supported the entire structure • Temples usually stood inside a sacred enclosure called the Temenos which usually included a natural element such as a spring

15. Wrap-Up Slide • The most famous Greek temple is a temple in dedication of Zeus in Olympia in honour of the Olympics • This temple is considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world