There are many interesting facts about ancient Greece, like what kind of foods they ate or didn't eat and what kind of things they did for entertainment, here are some facts that you will find interesting.
The Greeks had some strange superstitions about food – some wouldn’t eat beans as they thought they contained the souls of the dead! Did you know that the Ancient Greeks invented the theatre?
They loved watching plays, and most cities had a theatre – some big enough to hold 15,000 people! Only men and boys were allowed to be actors, and they wore masks, which showed the audience whether their character was happy or sad. Some of the masks had two sides, so the actor could turn them around to change the mood for each scene.
The first person to propose that everything is made of atoms was the Greek philosopher Democritus, around 440 BCE. He reasoned that if he were to attempt to cut an object in half over and over again he would eventually reach a tiny grain of matter that could not be cut in half. Democritus called these hypothetical building blocks of matter "atoms", after the Greek atomos, "uncuttable".
Twenty-three centuries passed between when the Greek
philosopher Xenophane surmised that mountains on which seashells were found must
originally have been covered by the sea and the Scottish geologist James
Hutton's scientific deduction that made sober sense of what had seemed
lunacy.
The Greeks had some strange superstitions about food – some wouldn’t eat beans as they thought they contained the souls of the dead! Did you know that the Ancient Greeks invented the theatre?
They loved watching plays, and most cities had a theatre – some big enough to hold 15,000 people! Only men and boys were allowed to be actors, and they wore masks, which showed the audience whether their character was happy or sad. Some of the masks had two sides, so the actor could turn them around to change the mood for each scene.
The first person to propose that everything is made of atoms was the Greek philosopher Democritus, around 440 BCE. He reasoned that if he were to attempt to cut an object in half over and over again he would eventually reach a tiny grain of matter that could not be cut in half. Democritus called these hypothetical building blocks of matter "atoms", after the Greek atomos, "uncuttable".
Twenty-three centuries passed between when the Greek
philosopher Xenophane surmised that mountains on which seashells were found must
originally have been covered by the sea and the Scottish geologist James
Hutton's scientific deduction that made sober sense of what had seemed
lunacy.