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22 Cards in this Set
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Myths
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traditional stories about gods and heroes
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Mount Olyimpus
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highest mountain in Greese
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Orcale
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sacred shrine where priests or priestess spoke for a god or godess
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Delphi
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town in Greece; site of the Apollo Temple
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Epics
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long poems that told about heroic deeds
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Homer
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poet wrote the Odyssey and Ilaid
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Aesop
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slave; made up famous fables
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Fable
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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. actors speak show emotion and imitate the actions of the characters they represent
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Tragedy
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a person who struggled to overcome difficulties but fails
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Comedy
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a story that ends happily
today: means a story filled with humor |
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Sophocles and Euripides
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best known writer of Greek tragedies
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Philosophy
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Greek word for love of wisdom. study of history, poltical science, science, and mathematics
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Pythagoras
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Greek philosopher and teacher
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Sophists
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professional teachers in ancient Greece
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Socrates
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Athenian sculptor who loved philosophy
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Socratic Method
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a teaching meathod used today
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Plato
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One of Socrates' students; a writer
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Aristotale
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Plato's best student; wrote more than 200 books on goverment, planets, and stars
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Herodotus
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wrote history on Persian wars.
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Thucyydides
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the greatest historian of the ancient world
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Philosophers
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thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything
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