The padrinos of the arras hold the 13 coins the bride and groom will present to each other following the blessing and placing of rings. This unusual custom comes from the Romans, whose tradition included breaking of gold or silver with one half to be kept by the woman and the other half by the man as a pledge of their marriage.
Bouzouki /Î¼ÏÎ¿ÏÎ¶Î¿ÏÎºÎ¹. Sirtaki or syrtaki /ÏÏÏÏÎ¬ÎºÎ¹ is a popular dance of Greek origin, choreographed by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of the slow and fast versions of the hasapiko dance.
More than fifty incredible inventions of ancient Greece have been reconstructed, including Archimedesâ screw, the robot-servant of Philon, the automatic theatre of Heron, ancient war machines, and the famous analogue âcomputerâ of Antikythera, covering the period from 2,000 BC up to the end of the ancient Greek world.