Greek civilization
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Myths | Traditional stories about gods and heroes.In the case of the Greeks, they expressed religious beliefs. |
| Mount Olympus | The highest mountain in Greece which is said to be the abode of the twelve most important gods and godesses. |
| Oracle | A sacred shrine were a priest(ess) spoke for a god or godess. |
| Delphi | Where the most famous oracle was located. |
| Epics | Long poems that told about heroic deeds. they were also the earliest Greek stories. |
| Homer | The poet who wrote the first great epics of Greece, which were the Illiad and the Odyssey. |
| Aesop | A Greek slave that made up his now famous fables that mostly had animals talking and acting like people. |
| fable | A short tale that teaches a lesson, points out human flaws and strengths, and ends with a message or moral. |
| drama | A story told by ctors who pretended to be charaters in the story. |
| tragedy | One of the two types of dramas where a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails. |
| comedy | One of the two types of dramas where the story ends happily. |
| Sophocles | A general and a writer of plays who developed drama even further than it was previously. |
| Euripides | A later playwright who made his plays more down-to-earth instead of makinghis plays about gods and heroes. |
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