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• Ancient Greece had a warm, dry climate, as Greece does today.
• Most people lived by farming, fishing and trade.
• Others were soldiers, scholars, scientists and artists.

• Ancient Greek homes were built around a courtyard or garden.

• The walls were often made from wood and mud bricks.

• They had small windows with wooden shutters to keep out the hot sun.

• They didn't have much furniture inside.

• Many homes didn’t have a bathroom. There were public baths

• Most people washed using a small bucket or in a nearby stream.

• At night, Greeks slept on beds stuffed with wool, feathers or dry grass.

• A Greek woman wore a long tunic called a chiton.

• Over this, she wore a cloak draped from her shoulders, called a himation.

• Young men wore short tunics, while older men preferred long ones.

• Enslaved men often wore just a strip of cloth called a loincloth.

• Many people walked around barefoot.
• Some wore leather sandals or, for horse-riding, high boots.
• Many people wore wide-brimmed hats in hot weather, to shade their faces from the sun.

• Children played with small pottery figures, and dolls made of rags, wood, wax or clay

• Some of these dolls even had moveable arms and legs!

• Other toys were rattles, hoops, yo-yos and hobby horses (a pretend horse made from a stick).

• Children also played with balls made from tied-up rags or a blown-up pig's bladder.

• Men and women usually ate separately in ancient Greece.

• Everyone ate with their fingers, so food was cut up in the kitchen first.

• Only rich people ate a lot of meat. They would eat hares, deer and wild boar.

• Octopus was a favourite seafood.

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