Art & Architecture

Corinthian

There are three types of columns that the Ancient Greeks used to stabilize their buildings and to add decoration and design. They have used marble and stone to build with. The three styles of pillars are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. The doric pillars are very plain pillar that goes up in an A shape. The Ionic pillars have a swirl on the capital and they have a straight shape, although the Corinthian column is more decorative, the Ionic pillars had a sturdy base.
Ionic

Doric

Food

From 750-480BC the Greeks ate alolt of foods.Greek foods changed with the season and geography. The Greeks had lots of foods like party foods such as blood pudding ,piggs feet, wine, etc.Speacial people would go in to there party tent and they would lay on their beds and slaves and servants would feed them.they had lots of foods from vegetables to fruits protein and wheat.

Money

8 chalkoi = 1 obolus6 obolus = 1 drachma100 drachma = 1 mina (or mna)60 minae = 1 Athenian Talent (Athenian standard)
Between the years 1926 and 1930 a new a bunch of new coins were introduced to the Hellnistic Republic.