Earlier this week, Ms. Hoffman wrote about all the amazing uses that the ancient Greeks had for the olive tree. She learned something else about it too!
She found out that the ancient Greeks used olive oil as money! At one time, an ancient Greek could be paid for his day of work with 3 kilos of oil!
She also found out that the winner of the Panathenaic Games (kind of like the Olympic Games) might take home as much as 5 tons of olive oil in a ceremonial amphorae.
The olive was so important that the winner of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece would receive a crown made of olive leaves.
You can also see olive leaves on some of these ancient Greek coins.
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| Look close and you can see the olive leaves next to the owls. |
You can still see olives grown many places in Greece today!
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| Walking through an olive grove in Sparta |
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| Olives growing on the trees |
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| A beautiful olive grove! |
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