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18 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 or priestess spoke for a god or goddess
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Epic
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long poems told about 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 person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails
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Comedy
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Any drama that has a happy ending
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Philosophy
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love of wisdom
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Philosopher
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Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything
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Sophist
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Professional teachers in Ancient Greece
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Socratic Method
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Teaching still used today
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legacy
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what a person leaves behind when he or she leaves
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Hellenistic Era
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A time when the Greeks language and ideas spread to the non-greek people of Southwest Asia
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Epicureanism
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A philosophy founded by Epicureas (goal is to be happy)
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Stoicism
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very popular philosophy in the Hellenistic world
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Astronomer
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People who study stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies
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Plane Geometry
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The branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another
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Solid Geometry
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The syudy of ball-like shapes called spheres and tube-like shapes called cylinders
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