Humble country or city folk would have supplemented their daily repasts with vegetables, fruit, dried nuts and perhaps some goat’s or sheep’s milk, cheese, or oxygala, a form of yoghurt. According to Aristophanes, soldiers likewise ate simple meals, sometimes comprising only cheese and onions.

Don’t leave Greece without trying…

• Taramasalata. A mainstay of any Greek meal are classic dips such as tzatziki (yogurt, cucumber and garlic),melitzanosalata (aubergine), and fava (creamy split pea purée).
• Olives and olive oil.
• Dolmades.
• Moussaka.
• Grilled meat.
• Fresh fish.
• Courgette balls (kolokythokeftedes)
• Octopus.

Nobody ate butter, though Ancient Greeks did add it to cheese. However, in these cases, it was mainly goat’s milk. If you want to eat like an Ancient Greek today, then follow their lead and cut milk and heavy dairy from your diet!

Laconia

To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands. Unlike their Athenian counterparts, Spartan women could legally own and inherit property and they were usually better educated.

Sparta entered its long-term decline after a severe military defeat to Epaminondas of Thebes at the Battle of Leuctra. As Spartan citizenship was inherited by blood, Sparta increasingly faced a helot population that vastly outnumbered its citizens.

(ˈspɑːtə ) noun. an ancient Greek city in the S Peloponnese, famous for the discipline and military prowess of its citizens and for their austere way of life.

god Zeus

Zeus

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Athletes prayed to the gods for victory, and made gifts of animals, produce, or small cakes, in thanks for their successes. According to legend, the altar of Zeus stood on a spot struck by a thunderbolt, which had been hurled by the god from his throne high atop Mount Olympus, where the gods assembled.

Why did Zeus eat his wife? In some versions of Greek mythology, Zeus ate his wife Metis because it was known that their second child would be more powerful than him. After Metis’s demise, their first child Athena was born when Hephaestus cleaved Zeus’s head open and the goddess of war emerged, fully grown and armed.

But representations of Zeus as a powerful young man also exist. Symbols or Attributes: Thunderbolt. Strengths: Highly powerful, strong, charming, persuasive. Weaknesses: Gets in trouble over love, can be moody.

Hera

Two of them, Zeus and his older sister Hera, followed the footsteps of their parents and also became husband and wife. Through his older sister, Zeus fathered several Olympians. Zeus also fathered a daughter, Persephone, with his other older sister, Demeter.

It had been prophesied that Metis would bear extremely powerful children: the first, Athena and the second, a son more powerful than Zeus himself, who would eventually overthrow Zeus. In order to forestall these dire consequences, Zeus tricked her into turning herself into a fly and promptly swallowed her.

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