Greece

1. Greece

2. Greek facts Greece is home of the Olympic games which started around 776 bc in Olympia. They were held in honour of the Greek god Zeus. Zeus is the leader of all gods and men according to Greek history. He is the god of sky and thunder.

3. Greek clothing Men wore tunics ( t-shirt ) often only over one shoulder and a cloak which could also be used as a blanket. Their legs were bare. They wore leather sandals. The women wore a large piece of wool or linen wrapped around them.

4. Greek food Some of the main food in Greece is souvlaki (meat and vegetables on a skewer) , moussaka (like lasagne), lamb on the spit, roast lamb, kokoretsi (Lamb or goat intestines and organs), stifado (beef and onion casserole), pastitsio (baked pasta dish with ground beef and bechamel sauce), gemista (stuffed tomatoes and vegetables), exohiko (spicy lamb) and bifteki (marinated onions, tomatoes, shredded romaine and tzaziki). Lots of Greeks like sea food. Moussaka Gemista

5. Greek music the lyra was a hand-held, strummed and occasionally plucked, string instrument, built on a tortoise-shell frame, generally with seven or more strings. The lyra was used to accompany others or even oneself for reading and song. the kithara, was a bit like a cello. It was a strummed string instrument, more complicated than the lyra. It had a box-type frame with strings stretched from the cross-bar at the top to the sounding box at the bottom; it was held upright and played with a plectrum. The strings were tunable by adjusting wooden wedges along the cross-bar. Lyra