Chap. 5 Ancient Greece
Terms
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- comedy
- a drama, or story, with a happy ending
- philosophy
- comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom"
- Stoicism
- a philosophy that teaches that people are happy if they do their duty and follow logic, not emotion
- Socratic method
- a way of teaching in which the teacher asks students questions that make the students use logic to figure out things
- astronomers
- people who study stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies
- tragedy
- a drama, or story, with an umhappy ending
- drama
- a story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story
- plane geometry
- branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces, or planes, relate to each other
- legacy
- what a person leaves behind when he or she dies
- solid geometry
- branch of mathematics that studies spheres, or balls, and cylinders, or tubes
- fable
- a short story that teaches a lesson
- philosophers
- Greek thinkers who believed that people could understand everything by studying and thinking about it
- myth
- a traditional story about gods and heroes
- Hellenistic Era
- a time when Greek ideas and the Greek language spread to non-Greek people
- oracle
- a holy shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for the god or goddess
- Epicureanism
- a philosophy that teaches that people are happy if they spend time with friends and do not worry
- Sophist
- professional teacher in ancient Greece
- epic
- a long poem about heroes and heroines