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By Mollie Cooper, Bella Zugna, Nicola Ivec & Sabrina Jessup. A form of Ancient Greek entertainment that is still happening today is street art, such as busking. In the city in Ancient Greece, it was popular for poets and singers of any ability to perform on the streets.
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By Mollie Cooper, Bella Zugna, Nicola Ivec & Sabrina Jessup
A form of Ancient Greek entertainment that is still happening today is street art, such as busking. In the city in Ancient Greece, it was popular for poets and singers of any ability to perform on the streets. In ancient Greece, the entertainers were travelling performers. And people used to refer to them if they wanted to know the news from other places, because there was no newspapers, T.V or internet. So travelling street artists delivered the news even if it was a little out of date - but it was still the fastest way to know the news.
MUSIC Greeks, especially rich ones, had a lot of leftover time to spend talking, giving dinner parties, going to the gymnasium and playing all kinds of games. Music was a very big part of entertainment. There was music played at births, weddings, weddings and funerals.
The type of musical instruments they used were harps, lyres (a type of Greek string instrument), kitharas (a type of lyre), and wind instruments such as the syrinx, and pan pipes. Greek men did not dance, and only watched dancers perform at celebrations and parties. LYRE
The Greek diet was consisted of foods that were easily raised in the rocky terrain of Greece. • Breakfast was eaten at the rise of the sun and was bread dipped in wine. • Lunch was the same, along with some olives, figs, cheese or dried fish. • Supper was the main meal of the day. It was eaten near sunset. It consisted of vegetables, fruit, fish and sometimes, honey cakes. • The Ancient Greeks didn't know about sugar so they used natural honey as a sweetener.
Wine was the main drink in Ancient Greece. It was watered down though, to drink it straight it was considered barbaric. • Milk wasn't drunk often because it was also considered barbaric. • Water was another possible drink. • The Ancient Greeks did not have eating utensils, like spoons, forks, and knifes; so they used their hands. • Bread was used to scoop out thick soups and bread was also used as a napkin. After being used as a napkin, the bread was thrown on the floor for dogs or servants to clean up later.
Because the weather was so hot in Greece, people wore light and comfortable clothes. • Women wore a tunic made from a rectangular piece of cloth called a chiton. Servant men and women also wore these.
Women wore long chitons that went to their feet but servants wore ones that came down to their knees. • Men of higher regard wore a long robe called a himiation which they wore to show their social status • Both men and women also wore cloaks hats shoes and sandals. • Women also wore a shawl called a peplos. • The Greeks also made lovely jewellery with gold and silver which was worn by the women.
During battle the Greeks wore a bronze helmet with a crest made from horse hair, bronze leg guards called greaves and a bronze breast plate over the top of a special linen tunic with many colours on it.