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Fun Facts
Explore Ancient Greece! 25 Great Projects, Activities, & Experiments
- There were huge walls surrounding the important cities in ancient Greece—they were 525 feet apart, 65 feet high, and over 20,000 feet long!
- The ancient Greeks were the fathers of science, mathematics, and astronomy.
- Juries and group votes both came from ancient Greece.
- The entire Parthenon, the beautiful temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena, was made out of white marble!
- Greek sailors painted large eyes on the sides of their ships to protect them from danger.
- The first Olympics were in Greece.
- The ancient Greeks created the first known map of the world.
- Athens, the capital of modern Greece, is the city where democracy was born.
- In ancient Greece, men and women lived in different parts of the house.
- Theaters in ancient Greece were built in a half-circle shape.
- The most important crops in ancient Greece were olives and grapes, used for oil and wine.
- At dinner parties, guests sat on long couches called klines.
- Hippocrates, an ancient Greek scientist is known as the father of medicine.
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Ages 6-9
