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 no glass, but wooden shutters to keep out the hot sun.

The area in and around Greece’s second-largest city offers traditional Greek houses, ... The property’s lush 1.4-acre plot is anchored by three ancient pine trees.

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Houses had rooms called Gynaeceum, ... To find out about the lives of women in ancient Greece, we sometimes have to look differently at historical sources and ask ourselves, ...