{"id":31692,"date":"2021-12-19T10:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socdem.org\/?p=31692"},"modified":"2021-12-19T10:50:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:50:57","slug":"ieresioni-the-christmas-tree-of-antiquity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socdem.org\/en\/ieresioni-the-christmas-tree-of-antiquity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ieresioni, The Christmas Tree of Antiquity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Greek class with the teacher from Elliniki Agogi, the students had the opportunity to live the Christmas experience as in antiquity.<\/p>\n<p>The ancestor of the Christmas tree in ancient Greece was neither the fir nor the cypress, but an olive branch &#8211; the Ieresioni!<\/p>\n<p>Theseus offered the god Apollo an Ierision (decorated olive branches) on his return from Crete to Athens. 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