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| Myth | Traditional stories about gods and heroes |
| Mount Olympus | The highest mountain in Greece |
| Oracle | A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess |
| Delphi | Location in Greece where the famous oracle at the temple of Apollo was |
| Epics | Long poems told about heroic deeds |
| Homer | Poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey during the 700s B.C. |
| Aesop | Greek slave that made up his now famous fables |
| Fable | Short tale that teaches a lesson |
| Drama | A story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story |
| Tragedy | A person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails |
| Comedy | A story that ends happily |
| Sophocles | One of three best known writers of Greek tragedies |
| Euripides | One of three best known writers of Greek tragedies |
| Philosophy | Comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom" |
| Philosopher | Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything |
| Pythagoras | Greek philosopher who taught his pupils that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers |
| Sophists | Professional teachers in ancient Greece |
| Socrates | Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy |
| Socratic method | Belief that an absolute truth existed and that all real knowledge was within each person |
| Plato | One of Socrates' students |
| Aristotle | Wrote more than 200 books on topics ranging from government to the planets and stars. Plato's best student. |
| Herodotus | Wrote the history of the Persian Wars |
| Thucydides | Considered the greatest historian of the ancient world, and fought in the Peloponnesian War |
| Macedonia | Lays north of Greece |
| Philip II | In 359 B.C. he rose to the throne in Macedonia. |
| Legacy | What a person leaves behind when he or she dies |
| Theocritus | Wrote short poems about the beauty of nature |
| Epicureanism | Philosophy that taught students that happiness was the goal of life |
| Astronomers | Study stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies |
| Aristarchus | An astronomer from Samos that claimed the sun was at the center of the universe and that Earth circled the sun |
| Euclid | Probably the most famous Greek mathematician. His best known book, Elements, describes plane geometry |
| Plane Geometry | Branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another |
| Solid Geometry | The study of ball-like shapes called spheres and tubelike shapes called cylinders |
