S2_Coinage + Death + Calendar

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Created by
Priscilla Leung

Cards (25)

  • Obol (six obols to a Drachma)
  • Chalkos (silver, six Chalkos to a Drachma)
  • Drachma (a day's wages, 100 drachmas to a Mina)
  • Mina (60 Minas to a Talent)
  • Talent (60 Minas to a Talent)
  • Obol -> Chalkos -> Drachma -> Mina ->Talent
  • 3 handfuls of dirt is a burial
  • a coin (obol) is placed on the dead's mouth as passage into the underworld
  • stelai: engraved stone slabs used to mark and identify graves of the dead (starting in the Bronze Age)
  • Hekatombalon: July/August (SUMMER)
  • Metageitnion: August/September (SUMMER)
  • Boedromion: September/October (SUMMER)
  • Pyanepsion: October/November (FALL)
  • Maimakterion: November/December (FALL)
  • Poseideon: December/January (FALL)
  • Gamelion: January/February (WINTER)
  • Anthesterion: February/March (WINTER)
  • Elaphebolion: March/April (WINTER)
  • Mounichion: April/May (SPRING)
  • Thargelion: May/June (SPRING)
  • Skirophorion: June/July (SPRING)
  • Spring went from April/May - June/July
  • Winter went from January/February - March/April
  • Fall went from October/November - December/January
  • Summer went from July/August - September/October