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| oracles | persons who, it was believed, could speak to the gods |
| prophacy | statement of what might happen in the future |
| Olympic Games | a festival held in honor of Zeus every four years in the middle of the summer |
| Olympia | a group of temples and arenas build in fields |
| Zeus | king of the gods and god of weather |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love and beauty |
| Apollo | god of the sun |
| Ares | god of war |
| Artemis | goddess of the moon; twin sister to Apollo |
| Athena | goddess of Athens and wisdom |
| Demeter | goddess of crops |
| Dionysus | "party god"; god of wine, fertility, and hospitality |
| Hephaestus | god of artisans; husband of Aphrodite |
| Hera | goddess of marriage and children; wife of Zeus |
| Hermes | messanger of the gods; protector of thieves and mischief-makers |
| Poseidon | god of the sea and earthquakes |
| hippodrome | an oval race track with grandstands around it |
| pancratium | a combination of boxing and wrestling in which no holds were barred between the two fighters |
| pentathlon | made up of five events (run, jump, throw the discus, wrestle, and hurl the javelin) |
| Herodotus | "Father of History," read historical stories at sporting events |
| birth of theater | festivals to Dionysus |
| soliloquy | a talk given by one actor where personal thoughts and feelings are expressed to the audience |
| Aeschylus | created what came to be known as a play; tragedy playwright |
| tragedies | stories about suffering that dealt with the past and with the relationships between people and gods |
| Sophocles | tragedy playwright (mnemonic: Softy) |
| Euripides | tragedy playwright (mnemonic: Rip up the script) |
| comedy | a play with a happy ending that took place in the present and made fun of people |
| intellect | the ability to learn and reason |
| philosophia | studying the laws of nature and loving wisdom |
| philosophers | people who search for knowledge and wisdom |
| Socrates | an Athenian philosopher who was interested in the thinking process |
| Socratic method | a line of questioning designed to make a person arrive step-by-step at a final conclusion or truth |
| Plato | An Athenian aristocrat who was a student of Socrates |
| political science | the study of government |
| The Republic | a book by Plato about the ideal government |
| The Dialogues | a book by Plato consisting of a series of discussions in which different people talk about such things as truth and loyalty |
| Aristotle | A student at Plato's Academy for 20 years |
| classify | group together |
| Thales of Miletus | first known Greek scientist; developed the first two steps of the scientific method |
| scientific method | the process used by scientists to study something |
| hyposthesis | a possible explanation |
| syllogism | a method of reasoning that uses three related statements |
| Archimedes | explained the prinicle of the lever |
| Euclid | collected and organized all existing knowledge about geometry |
| Hippocrates | founder of scientific medicine |
| Pythagoras | sought to explain the nature of all things in mathematical terms |
| Hippocratic Oath | a promise to follow a list of rules about how doctors should use their skills to help their patients. |
