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13 Cards in this Set
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myth
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traditional stories about gods and heroes
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oracle
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a sacred shrine where a priest spoke for a god or goddess
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epic
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earliest Greek stories. These long poems told of heroic deeds
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fable
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a short tale that teaches a lesson
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drama
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a story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story
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tragedy
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a drama in which a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails
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comedy
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a drama in which the story ends happily
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Mount Olympus
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the highest mountain in Greece where the 12 most important gods and goddesses lived
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Delphi
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the location of oracle at the Temple of Apollo
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Homer
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`poet who wrote epics during the 700s B.C.
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Aesop
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a Greek slave who wrote fables about animals
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Sophocles
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writer of Greek tradegies
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Euripides
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writer of Greek tradegies
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