Ancient+Greek+Jewelry

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Why was Jewelry such a big thing in Greece? In Ancient Greece they wore Jewelry for many different reasons, and they would make jewelry out of many unique objects, different types of jewelry all made out of different things and different reasons. Do you ever wonder why people wear jewelry? In Ancient Greece there were a few reasons that they would wear jewelry. Just like the desire to look very wealthy and royal. attract the opposite gender, and/or to make a simple outfit beautiful. It has also been proved that woman would wear jewelry to draw in positive power that could give them a boost in the social pyramid. Jewelry could help to keep away bad and negative powers. Researchers could not figure out the exact reason, they researched many times and can’t decide if jewelry was used to go with outfits or the complete opposite. Many different reasons that they could have wanted to wear jewelry for, such a religion or for some type of special occasions. There are so many interesting facts about Jewelry and why people would wear it. Many people would have different jewelry for different types of occasions like if they were just walking around the house they might have very simple but elegant pieces. But if they had a huge party or ball to go to they also had jewelry for that, those pieces would be vnnry easy to see and very shiny, because of the point to dress to impress. ([|Christopher Schwebius]) and ([|http://www.greek-islands.us/ancient-greece/ancient-greek-jewels)]

Jewelry in Greece was made out of many different unprocessed objects. Such as animal (#selfie <- Shut up no one says selfie anymore with your ratchet face!! omg shut up please). shells, nuts, rocks and stones and also gold beads beautifully shaped like shells, flowers and even beetles. For the very fancy jewelry they would have craftsman make their jewelry out of emeralds, garnets, pearls and amethysts. Jewelry was first created in a place with an abundance of gold. Places in Asia and Egypt were very well with Gold amounts. Some people believed that the Jewelry had supernatural powers because of the shininess of the gold. A researcher found some iron rings and they thought they were very powerful and supernatural because of the fact that iron was not an everyday item. Gold is a very rare metal, so many of the jewelry makers had to pay a lot for it. Greece was very poor in gold. In order for them to get gold they woulrge abundance of Gold, so if they really needed gold they could ship it in if it was a necessary. the statement was preformed by: ([|Christopher Schwebius]) and ([])

There are many different types of Jewelry. There were headdresses made called the crown of honor. In the crown it would have flowers, acorns, foliage or images. The pieces on the headdresses were to show how royal or wealthy the wearer of the headdress is. There were necek gods like Eros, Nike, Artemis, and Aphrodite. During the time owning earrings with Nike, Eros or doves and you were considered to be wearing accepted fashion statement jewelry. If you owned a very unique cross, you would be admired by everyone. You can wear the jewelry on your wrists, ankles, neck and also as earrings. Many would wear jewelry for expressing their royalty. ([]) Ancient Greek has a very unique look to it. The many different types of jewelry worn all looked different from one another. The wreaths were made to be worn by very important people such as winners of a __#|competition__ of some sort. Tiaras and head pieces were to recognize the royal families. These tiaras were pretty much just woven gold bands. Many of the earrings that were found made people all over wonder how they could have worn them. They were in peculiar shapes that made researchers question the ability to wear the jewelry. Necklaces were made by attaching charms to string. There were also pins that were found decorated and made of gold. It is not confirmed what the uerent guesses of to why they were used such as decorative uses or to put in your hair. Broaches were very popular during the time, they were used to hold up the dresses and keep in place. Bracelets were very simple, just light spirals and worn on your wrists or right above your elbow like cuffs. The last of many is rings, they were made to be put into tombs or offered in alters. ([]) Ancient Greeks were during the 1600-1100 BC. They had amazing metalworkers who would make different types of jewelry made out of gold’s, silvers and such things that use decorative beads.

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