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| Mount Olympus | highest mountain in Greece, 12 most important gods and goddesses lived there |
| Delphi | had the most famous oracle in the Temple of Apollo |
| Homer | wrote the epic poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Aesop | Greek slave famous for his fables |
| Sophocles | wrote tragedies and used more actors and painted backdrops |
| Euripides | wrote tragedies and focus on human aspects like war |
| Myth | traditional stories about gods and heroes |
| Oracle | priest or priestess who spoke for a god or goddess |
| Epic | long poems told about heroic deeds |
| Fable | short tale that teaches a lesson has a moral or message at the end of the story |
| Drama | story told by actors who pretend to be charactersin the story |
| Tragedy | a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails. |
| Comedy | story that ends happily |
| Mortal | human |
| Veer | to shift or change direction |
| Waver | to become unsteady |
| Rash | done without thought or preparation |
| Reel | to turn or seem to turn around and around |
| Quench | to satisfy or put an end to a need or desire |
| Vainly | without success |
| Pythagoras | philosopher who studied the universe and numbers |
| Socrates | Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy |
| Plato | student of Socrates wrote the book "The Republic" |
| Aristotle | student of Plato wrote more than 200 books over government, stars, and planets |
| Herodotus | wrote the history of the Persian wars tried to seperate fact from legend |
| Thucydides | considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient world |
| Philosophy | Greek work meaning "love of wisdom" |
| Philosopher | Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything |
| Sophist | professional teachers who traveled from city to city |
| Socratic Method | way of teaching students to use their reason to find answers |
| Macedonia | a warrior people north of Greece who conquered Greece |
| Chaeronea | battle the Macedonians won to control Greece |
| Syria | land east of the Mediterranean Sea |
| Alexandria | city built to be an important business and trade city |
| Philiip II | King of Macedonia during the conquering of Greece |
| Alexander the Great | took control of the conquest of the Persian after his father died |
| Legacy | what a person leaves behind when he or she dies |
| Hellenistic Era | time when Greek language and Greek ideas spread to non-Greeks |
| Rhodes | home to poet Appolonius |
| Syracuse | home to Archimedes |
| Theocritus | wrote short poems about the beauty of nature |
| Aristarchus | astronomer that claimed the sun is the center of the universe |
| Eratosthenes | concluded that the Earth was round |
| Euclid | one of the most famous Greek mathematicians described plane geometry |
| Archimedes | one of the most famous scientist worked on solid geometry also figured out the value of pi |
| Epicureanism | philosophy that happiness is the goal of life |
| Stoicism | philosophy that happiness is from following reason, doing your duty |
| Astronomer | study stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies |
| Plane Geometry | math that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another |
| Solid Geometry | study of spheres and cylinders |
