What weird facts do you know about ancient greece?
It has to be public school apropriate!
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that circe the godess of sorcey and witch craft had a kid with odyesses
that Zeus was not the father of Athena but her mother!
Ancient Greeks did not eat tomatoes, potatoes, oranges and lemons since these were unknown at that time.
There is an ancient Greek folktale still very popular in Greece today that there is a mermaid that constantly plows the wide seas and asks every captain whether Alexander the Great is still alive. If the captain dare answer “No, he died long time ago,” the mermaid immediately raises a storm and sinks the ship.
Although the Greeks were great philosophers and dramatists, they didn’t have a system for counting. Hence the absence of any Greek mathematical texts (except Pythagoras whose work was all ‘mental’. The only way the Greeks could represent numbers was by adding an apostrophe sort of mark to the letters of the alphabet, starting with alpha (‘), going to omega (‘) and then starting again with two marks ( ‘ ‘ ). Made addition & subtraction difficult! (The Romans had the same problem as well!)
Athena (goddess of wisdom) was born from the forehead of Zeus, after he complained of a migraine.
The Ancient Greeks created the first special effects in a theatre – the noise of thunder was generated by a hole that was bored underneath the seats of an amphitheatre all the way from top to bottom. On cue, a stone ball was rolled from the very top of the theatre, and down the tube…producing a rumbling like thunder. Murders were never shown on stage, but a bloody and gory actor’s body would be pushed out on a small stage trolley so that the audience could see it. The Greeks were also some of the first to use a special ‘flying’ effect for gods – they hoisted actors up on a crane and dangled them in front of the stage.
Pythagoras outlawed the eating of beans to his followers
Narcissism, being in love with one’s self, was derived from a tale about Narcissus
Zeus married his sister, Hera
Woman, characterized by Pandora, is the source of all man’s problems
Athena and Poseidon fought for Athens, Athena gave Athenians fire, Poseidon gave them horses, they voted for Athena and the city was named after her
Zeus was an idiot. He had his wife catch him cheating on her some i dunno in the neighbourhood of 20 times