ancient greek, n.Trivia

In ancient Greece, wine was diluted with three times more water than wine.

Ancient Greeks valued political participation so much that the term 'idiot' was used in Ancient Greece to describe someone who did not contribute to politics or the community.

When a Greek Runner won gold at the 2000 Olympics for the 200-metre dash, he was the first Greek athlete to win an Olympic sprint since Dionysius of Alexandria in 269 AD.

'The apple of one's eye' is a phrase appropriate to Ancient Greek culture in that throwing one to a woman was considered a marriage proposal.

Cleopatra wasn’t actually Egyptian, she was Greek, a descendant of Alexander the Great’s Macedonian general Ptolemy.

Toothpaste, among the Ancient Greeks, consisted of pumice, talc, alabaster, coral powder or iron rust

Classical Greece statues were actually painted in vivid colors and merely stripped bare by time.

The Ancient Greeks used olive oil as a sunscreen.

Ancient Greeks preferred small penises, indicative of intelligence and wisdom while large penises were animalistic and barbarous

Cleopatra’s last name was Ptolemy, and she was Greek rather than Egyptian.