Ancient Greek - (Greek Mythology)

As you know, in Humanities we have recently been studying the topic Ancient Greek. And a subject that we spent a long time discussing and debating about was Greek Mythology. - And how the Greek population/ citizens believed and worshipped multiple Gods.

But before knowing about Greek Mythology you have to know a little about the history of Ancient Greece and the different city-states and different citizens:

According to research from now, it is said that Greek had many different city-states (nowadays, we call this different states), and 2 main city-states in Greece were Athens and Sparta. Athens was a place of wealth. A community that was very rich, powerful and wealthy. They had speciality in many different areas consisting of; architecture, art, drama, literature, philosophy, medicine, politics and science. The food that was served were mostly consisted of luxuries.
- In Athens there were 3 different types of people.
There were the Citizens, who were the people born in Athens and only consisted of men (as in the old times only men had political power.)
Metics were people who were born outside of Athens, were free people but had to pay taxes, and could not own any land in Athens.
And last but not least the Slaves. The Slaves were people who were the captured people from war. The population of the Metics and Slaves put together made up half the Athenian society.

In Sparta, there are also 3 different types of people.
Equals -  They were the people who controlled Sparta.
Half citizens -  free people, but had to pay taxes. They served in the army, but had no political power at all.
And the Helots. - The Helots are same as slaves, but just called differently in Sparta. And they had no rights at all.
Sparta was a very small populated city-state. And most of the men who were born in Sparta were sent to Military barracks at the age of 7, as they needed to be well-prepared for war at anytime, anywhere.

Despite the differences between both city-states. They all were entailed to believe and worship Gods. The commonly known God in all of Greece was Zeus, (God of all Gods). And every God lived in a mountain by the name of Mt. Olympus. And any citizen who dared to visit the Mt. Olympus was never to be found again. And that made citizens of Athens and Sparta, to Macedonia, and the whole entire Greece believe in Gods.

Here is a video regarding the God Zeus :
The video explains how Zeus grew up, and became the "leader" of all the other Gods, and the challenges he had to over come.

The Language We Speak

Did you know, the language we speak are mostly words from Greek or Latin. Here are some good examples of a few words that came from Greek;


Hygiene – 1670 Greek word meaning healthy, live well, also a goddess Hygieia

Trophy – 1510 Greek word, means victorious – trope

Chronology – 1590 Greek word, order by time – Chronologia

Pirate – Greek word, sailor, person who robs while out at sea – Peril

Logo – 1937, Greek word that means characters or symbols that represent words – logogram

Astronaut – 1929, - Astronautique

Photograph – 1839 – Photogene and heliograph

Phobia – 1786, from Phobos means fear same spelling

Tripod – 1600, Tripus (Tri three legs) Three legged objects

Telephone – 1835, was a signal by using sound. French word telephone. Tele means far away. Phone means verbal sounds.

Television – Words from French, but are combined using Latin. Vision, and tele combined together. Vision being able to see.

Hypnotism – 1843 Greek word. Neuro-hypnotism. Make someone sleep.

Drama – 1510 Greek word.

Helicopter – 1861, Greek word from helicoptere. An object that moves vertically up

Climate – late 14th century. Climatis, Slope of the Earth

Toxic – 1660. Toxikon, poison for use on arrows.

Automatic – 1812. Automatos, self acting or moving on its own.

Don't you think it is interesting to know a little bit about the language we speak and how it evolved into the words we use today. E.g. Automatic, was spelt and pronounced automatos, but nowadays we have evolved the word into automatic.