Ancient Greek leisure

ancient Greek training facility

thumb|300px|Family scene in a gynaeceum – painted on a lèbes gamikòs about 430 BC In Ancient Greece, the gynaeceum (, gynaikeion, from Ancient Greek , gynaikeia: "part of the house reserved for the women"; literally "of or belonging to women, feminine") or the gynaeconitis (, gynaikōnitis: "women's apartments in a house") was a building or the portion of a house reserved for women, generally the innermost apartment. In other words, a women's quarters, similar to the South Asian antahpura and Islamic South Asian zenana. The gynaeceum is the counterpart to the andrōn, or male quarters.

Parts of ancient Greek houses used only by men.

Lesche () is an Ionic Greek word, signifying council or conversation, and a place for it There is frequent mention of places of public resort, in the Greek cities, by the name of leschai (, the Greek plural of lesche), some set apart for the purpose, and others so called because they were so used by loungers; to the latter class belong the agora and its porticoes, the gymnasia, and the shops of various tradesmen, especially those of the smiths, which were frequented in winter on account of their warmth, and in which, for the same reason, the poor sought shelter for the night.