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Before the Greek physician Hippocrates came along – much of ancient Greek medicine relied on magical prayers, charms and the wearing of amulets. Special plants and herbs were also thought to have healing powers.
Unfortunately, magic and charms aren’t as effective as modern medicine, and so a lot of young ancient Greeks didn’t make it to adulthood. If you managed to get through your first few years without being struck down by hOrRiBlE dIsEaSeS, your parents would be pretty chuffed.
Thank you, Zeus! Have a sheep.
When children were three years old their father made a SaCrIfIcE to Zeus and Athena to thank them for letting his children survive.
But of course, at some point it would be time to pop off to the uNdErWoRlD (that’s where ancient Greeks believed people went when they died).
Many people buried their dead, which took them closer to the underground kingdom of the dead, knocking a little bit of time
off their journey and meaning they might get there in time for lunch.
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