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rituals
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ceremonies or rites
The Greek religious rituals involved prayers often combined with gifts to gods based on principle. |
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Delphi
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place dedicated to worship of Apollo where festivals were held and where the most famous oracle of the time was. Representatives of Greece went here to get predictions.
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oracle
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a sacred shrine where a god or goddess revealed the future through priests or priestesses
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Gulf of Corinth
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place south of Delphi and where Mount Parnassus overlooked.
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tragedies
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Greek dramas
They were presented in trilogy and built around a common theme |
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Aeschylus
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writer of Orestia
The Orestia relates the fate of Agamennon, hero of the Trojan War, and his family return from war. |
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Sophocles
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person who wrote the Oedipus Rex.
The Oedipus Rex wrote about an oracle of Apollo who foretold how Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother, and despite his efforts to prevent this, it still happened. |
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philosophy
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comes from the Greek word "love of wisdom" - an organized system of thought
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Pythagoras
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made the pythagorean theroem.
He thought that the essence of the universe would be found in music and numbers. Came around 6th century BC. |
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Socratic method
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created by Socrates. It uses a question-and-answer formed to lead pupils to see things for themselves by using their own reason
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Plato
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one of Socrates' students - an understudy. He was the greatest Philosopher of Western civilization and was fascinated by questions of reality.
Unlike Socrates, Plato wrote down his thoughts. |
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Aristotle
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person who studied under Plato at his school for 20 years. However, he did not accept Plato's theory of ideal forms.
He was interested in analyzing and classifying things. |
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Thucydides
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the greatest historian of the ancient world.
He was an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War, but was exiled after he was defeated. He wrote the "History of the Peloponnesian War." |
