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Ancient Greece4
vocab for section 4
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History
9th Grade
02/25/2010

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Olympus
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Highest mountian in Greece, where the gods lived.
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Oracle
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A second shrine where a god or goddess revealed the future through a priest or priestess.
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Tragedies
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A trilogy (3 plays) built around a common theme.
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Sophodes
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A great Athenian playwright.
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Herodotus
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Writer, wrote HISTORY OF THE PERSIANS WAR.
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Thucydides
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Athenian general who fought in the great Peloponnesian war.
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Philosophy
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An organized system of thought.
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Pythagoras
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A Greek philosopher.
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Sophists
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A group of traveling teachers in Ancient Greece
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Socrats
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A sculpture whose true love is philosiphy.
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Plato
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One of the greatest philosiphers of Western civilization
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Aristotle
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Plato's most famous pupil.
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