Greek Civilization
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- oracle
- sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess
- agora
- in early Greek city-states, an open area that served as both market and a meeting place
- astronomer
- person who studies stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies
- plane geometry
- branch of math matics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another
- drama
- story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story
- tyrant
- person who takes power by force and rules with total authority
- Epicureanism
- philosophy founded by Epicurus in Hellenistic Athens; taught that happiness through the pursuit of pleasure was the goal of life
- fable
- short tale that teaches a lesson
- Sophist
- professional teacher in ancient Greece; believed that people should use knowledge to improve themselves and developed the art of public speaking and debate
- myth
- traditional story describing gods or heroes or explaining natutal events
- comedy
- form of drama in which the story has a happy ending
- Socratic Method
- way of teaching developed by Socrates that used a question-and-answer format to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves
- peninsula
- body of land with water on three sides
- philosophy
- study of nature and meaning of life; comes from Greek word for "love of wisdom"
- legacy
- what a person leaves behind when he or she dies
- Stoicism
- philosophy founded by Zeno in Hellenistic Athens; taught that happiness came from following emotions, but from following reason and doing one's duty
- tragedy
- form of drama in which a person struggles to overcome difficulties but meets an unhappy end
- solid geometry
- branch of mathematics that studies spheres and cylinders
- epic
- long poem that tells about legendary or heroic deeds
- colony
- settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties with its homeland
- philosopher
- thinker who seeks wisdom and ponders questions about life
- polis
- the early greek city-state, made up of a city and surrounding countryside and run like an independent country
- Hellenistic Era
- period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia