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Period: 750 BCE to 476 BCE
HOW DOES IT BE AWARDED?
Food in ancient Greece is based on the bread of wheat, wine, olive oil, pork and sausages, the use of aromatic herbs and fish cuisine. They ate seated in banks from where the banquet name derives. The same bread could serve as a dish but more frequently they used pottery or metal utensils. They did not know the fork but the knife and the spoon. Greek chefs were famous and enjoyed a high social status. -
679 BCE
LEGEND: THE SIRENA
The sirens have always been seduced famous, since, according to mythology, they were able to enchant with their voice to the sailors with the intention of rapturing them. When singing, they seemed to be beautiful maidens, but those who succumbed to their charms, soon discovered their true nature. And it is that, Artemisa, the island in which the sirens lived, was full of bones of the sailors who had been attracted by their songs.
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618 BCE
AMAZONAS
It is said that the Amazons lived in Terma (now the Black Sea Region of Turkey), where they formed an independent kingdom under the rule of Queen Hippolyta (which leaves her horses loose).
According to the myth, no male could have sexual intercourse or live in the country of the Amazons. However, once a year, and to prevent the extinction of their race, the Amazons visited the gargarious, a neighboring tribe. -
578 BCE
LEGEND OF PEGASO
Pegaso is a winged horse. Its name comes from a Greek word that meant spring, since it was said that it was born in the sources of the Ocean. One of the legends tells that he was born from the blood spilled by Medusa when Perseo cut off his head. One of the characteristics of his flight is that when he does, he moves his legs as if he was running through the air. When he was born, Pegaso went to Olympus, where he put himself under the orders of Zeus, when he took the lightning bolt. -
542 BCE
PANDORA
Pandora was the first woman; Something like Eve for Christians. It was made by Hephaestus due to an order of Zeus, after Prometheus, against the will of Zeus, granted the gift of fire to mankindThe legend tells that Zeus wanted to take revenge on Prometheus for stealing the fire and giving it to humans and introduced him to the brother of this, Epimeteo, a woman called Pandora. -
480 BCE
THE SECOND MEDICAL
The Second Medical War takes place between 480 BC. and 479 BC, assuming the conquest of Greece by Jerjes. This final and final point in the Medical Wars, which began with Darío I, and who were in a stalemate after the decisive battle of Marathon. Transferred the death of Darío I, his son Jerjes resumed the campaign for Greece and took place for a considerable army, as well as a large fleet, seeking victory for superior and superior application. -
468 BCE
HERACLES
Heracles is undoubtedly the most celebrated Greek hero and his extraordinary strength is his main attribute. He is considered the ancestor of the Kings of Sparta and the influence of this polis in Archaic and Classical Greece was one of the many reasons for the spread of his legend, making Heracles (or Hercules for the Romans) the hero dorio par excellence . -
386 BCE
THE TECIRS MEDIAL
In the year 499 a.C. The Joniese colonies rose again, with the support of the cities of Athens and Erétria, but failed again, so that the emperor of the Persians Darío sent a punitive expedition in 492 BC. C., commanded by Mardonio, to punish the cities that supported the revolt. Mardonio succeeded in reconquering Thrace, as well as achieving the kingdom of Macedonia under the shadow of the Persians. -
247 BCE
THE ACHLlES HEEL
Achilles was a hero of the Trojan War and one of the main heroes of the Homer's Iliad. In the work, Achilles is usually called "the one of the light feet", since he was considered the fastest man.According to some versions, the god Apolo guided the arrow of young Paris.
This was the only weakness that Aquilles showed in his passage through the Earth, from which the expression "heel of Achilles" was born, alluding to his being the only weakness of a person. -
31 BCE
THE BATTER
El Golfo de Arta, conocido también como el golfo de Accio, está situado en el mar Jónico, al noroeste de Grecia. Este lugar que nos ocupa hoy, fue el escenario de una de las batallas más importantes de la antigüedad, la Batalla Naval de Accio, sucedida en el año 31 a.C, que enfrentaría a la flota de Octavio Augusto contra las de Marco Antonio y su aliada Cleopatra. -
1200
History of the greccia
Ancient Greece is the period of the history of Greece that has almost a millennium, until the death of Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander the Great, which would mark the beginning of the subsequent Hellenistic period.The ancient Greeks are in a tricontinental civilization, which includes the Middle East, Egypt and a small area of Eastern Mediterranean Europe. -
1200
PARTY OF OLE GRECIA
Fruit salad
International Exhibition: It is celebrated every year in the month of September.
Greek Film Festival: shorts and feature films
Las Dimitria: parties dedicated to the patron saint of Salonika San Demetrio
Fiestas de Carnaval en Políyiros (variable late February or early March)
Exhibition of Local Crafts and Products in Arena, accompanied by dances
August 15: traditional festivities and traditional feast in Megali Panayiá and Sarti
