1. Welcome
To
The Parthenon is the temple of
the Greek goddess Athena. This
ancient building was built on an
acropolis in Athens, Greece. An
Greece is located in South
eastern Europe on the Balkan
Greece
acropolis is a large hill on a which a Peninsula. The southern most tip of
fort is built. The Parthenon shows Greece reaches into the Mediterranean
Greek ideals of beauty and harmony sea. Mountains cover nearly three-
making the Parthenon one of the most fourths of mainland Greece. The jagged
famous buildings in the world. coastline of Greece is cut by many
inlets. It is surrounded by about 2,000
islands!
Greece has a dry climate and
poor soil farmers plated crops well
suited to the area such as, barely,
wheat, olives, and grapes. The sea
is especially powerful during the
winter when the winds are high
and the seas are rough.

2. The center of a polis, or a city-state,
is called the Agora. The Agora was like our
grocery store today except people would Did
talk and have fun along with buying your
meats, cheeses, and your wine etc. There
are acrobats, dancers music, and so much
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more!
Greek clothes were designed to
be comfortable so they were easy to
Why Come To put on and very elegant to wear. Rich
men and women had slaves to help
Greece? them arrange their clothing. For
The Greek theatre is the birth
place of all the TV shows we know
people at work they wore short
and love. The Greeks invented
chitons or a loin cloth which is very
certain genres such as, the tragedy,
easy to move around in.For the most
comedy, drama, mystery, and the love
part the people of Greece wore
story. The audience is mostly men
sandals on their feet or they were
because they thought women were
barefoot to walk around the beautiful
Greece has so much culture and too emotional. Even the actors were
history. You can visit the beautiful all men so they would dress up as
historic buildings such as the well- women for women characters. The
known Parthenon. If you don’t want to theatre was designed so that sounds
visit historic buildings then go to the could be carried throughout the
theatre and watch a play, or go to a whole place. They also designed the
museum and see the beautiful art theatre so that everyone in the
work of the Greeks. There are so many audience had a great view of the
interesting sites to see and things to do spectacular performance!
in Greece. Go have some fun! Design By,
Rebecca De Wees