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| Sophocles | Greek playwright |
| 123 plays | written by Sophocles 7 survive |
| Minos | legendary king of Crete |
| Minos | king whose name is given to oldest Greek civilization |
| Plato | famous student of Socrates |
| Plato | wrote The Republic |
| Plato | his school was the Academy |
| Aristotle | philosopher/student of Plato/tutor of Alexander the Great |
| Euripides | wrote Medea |
| Myron | sculpted the discus thrower |
| Socrates | associated with a question/answer method |
| Socrates | father of philosophy |
| Pericles | rules during the golden age of Athens |
| Pericles | orders the construction of the Parthenon |
| Homer | wrote the Iliad and the Odyssea |
| Knossos | palace of Minos |
| Aristophanes | inventor of comey |
| Hippocrates | father of modern medicine |
| Hippocratic oath | doctors take this oath |
| Phideas | well-known sculptor/statue of Zeus and Athena |
| Pheidippides | ran to tell of victory from the battlefield of Marathon |
| Pythagoras | right triangles |
| Archimides | levers and Pi |
| Herodotus | father of history |
| Euclid | geometry |
| phalanx | Greek fighting formation |
| acropolis | hilltop fortress |
| polis | Greek city-state |
| aristocracy | government by a few wealthy |
| monarchy | ruling family often hereditary crown |
| oligarchy | military rule |
| hellenic | adjective of acient Greece |
| hellenistic | adjective of blended east and west |
| tyrant | popular leader |
| ostracism | exiled/kick out of polis |
| democracy | Athens |
| peloponnesus | Greek mainland |
| helot | Spartan slave |
| ephor | Spartan committee member |
| Delos | Greek island |
| Phillip II | Macedonian king |
| Phillip II | father of Alexander |
| Olympia | mother of Alexander |
| Persia | enemy of Greece |
| Mesopotamia | land between two rivers |
| Darius III | enemy of Alexander |
| Alexandria, Egypt | cultural center of the hellenistic world |
| Alexandria, Egypt | library and lighthouse |
| Roxanne | Alexander's Persian wife |
| Bucephalus | Alexander's horse |
| Bucephalus | ox-head |
| Gordian | town in Turkey with a famous knot |
| Gordian knot | slashed by Alexander |
| 776 BCE | 1st Olympic games |
| Hera games | women |
| Olympic games | dedicated to Zeus |
| pentathalon | 5 competitions |
| Sparta | speech discouraged |
| Athens | speech encouraged |
| Sparta | lengthy military obligation |
| Athens | age 18-20 military obligation |
| Athens | land-owning free males become citizens at age 30 |
| Sparta | land-owning free males become citizens at age 30 |
| Sparta | 20 slaves for every free man |
| 1503 | number of years there were not Olympic games |
| marathon | 26 mile race |
| Laconia | area which included Sparta |
| Aeschylus | father of Greek drama |
| Aeschylus | wrote 3 plays about Agammemnon |
| Oedipus complex | attracted to paren of opposite sex |
| Medea complex | mother kills her own children out of spite |
| hipolite | Grecian foot soldier |
| Hellas | ancient Greece |
| Socrates | sentenced to death/ingest hemlock |
| Antigone | Sophocles play/daughter of Oedipus |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles play Rex=king |
| Byzantium | Greek city on the Bosporus |
| Mycenae | Greeks left for Trojan war |
| Heinrich Schliemann | archeologist who unearthed Troy and Mycenae |
| Heinrich Schliemann | German whose gold discovery in now in Pushkin museum in Moscow |
| agora | Greek central market |
| hubris | excessive pride |
| Lyceum | Aristotle's school/scientific methos |
| arable | can be farmed |
| olives and grapes | main products of ancient Greece |
