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Olympics
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Greek athletic competition
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oracle
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People who gave predictions and interpreted messages of the gods
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Olympia
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Where the Olympic games were played-Greeks believed that Zeus sat on a golden throne atop Mount Olympus
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Eleusis
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The site of a sanctuary to Demeter-the goddess of grain
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tragedy
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a sad story without a happy ending
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comedies
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funny plays
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Delphi
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A sanctuary to worship Apollo
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sanctuaries
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places where the Greeks worshipped their gods
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Delos
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A place the Greeks believed to be Apollo's birthplace
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Coroebus
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The very first recorded winner at the olympic games
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Hera
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Zeus's wife, the goddess of marriage
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Apollo
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One of Zeus's sons-the god of light, health, herding, and prophecy
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Zeus
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Most respected Greek god-he set standards for gods and humans to follow.
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Ares
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One of Zeus's sons, the god of war
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Demeter
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the Greek goddess of grain
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Poseidon
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Brother of Zeus, god of the sea
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Dionysus
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One of Zeus's sons-the god of wine
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Sophicles
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A play writer who wrote a Greek play called Antigone
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Marathon
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The place where the Persians and the Athenians fought.
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ephors
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Five government leaders elected by the assembly.
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helots
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state slaves assigned to a particular plot of land
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Phidippides
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(according to legend) The man who gave messages from both Athens and Sparta and died from running so long and fast
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Dorians
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The people who took over Sparta
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Thermopylae
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a mountain pass on the Greek mainland where the Persians and Greeks fought
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Salamis
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The place where a major battle between the Persians and the Greeks fought-- the Greeks won.
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Plataea
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A place where the Persians and the Greeks fought, and the Greeks won
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Darius
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A ruler of the Persians who wanted to punish the Athenians for rebelling
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Xerxes
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Darius' son who fought many times with the Greeks
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Acropolis
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A flat-topped, fortified hill in Athens
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Parthenon
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A temple dedicated to Athena
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agora
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An Athenian marketplace
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metics
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People in Athens who came from a different country and couldn't become a citizen
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Pericles
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An Athenian who helped rebuild Athens after it had been burned by the Persians
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Plutarch
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A Greek historian who wrote that Pericles voice was like thunder
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Nike
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The goddess of Victory
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Pasion
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An Athenian slave who became a citizen because he skillful--he was also rich
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Demosthenes
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A famous Greek speaker who wrote that a person would not be able to tell the differences between the homes of the rich and the homes of the poor
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alliance
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agreement
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Delian league
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Athens's alliance with other city-states
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Aegospotami
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A port where the Athenians sailed their fleet.
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philosopher
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a person who searches for the truth and meaning of life
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hemlock
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the juice from a poisonous plant that Socrates died from
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Thucydides
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A greek historian who wrote about the plague spreading in Athens
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Xenophon
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A greek historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian war
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Socrates
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A Greek philosopher
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Plato
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A student of Socrates
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