Chapter 8.1 The Culture of Ancient Greece Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Myths | Traditional stories about the deeds of gods, goddesses, & heroes that explained their world |
| Mount Olympus | The highest mountain in Greece, where the ancient Greeks believed many of their gods and goddesses lived |
| oracle | a sacred shrine where a god or goddess revealed the future through a priest or a priestess |
| Delphi | Oracle to Apollo in Greece |
| epics | long poems that tell the stories of heroes |
| Homer | ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Aesop | Greek slave who wrote fables |
| fable | a short tale that teaches a lesson |
| drama | story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story |
| tragedy | a play in which a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails. They had unhappy endings |
| comedy | a play in which the story ends happily |
| Sophocles | Greek writer of tragedies; used three actors |
| Euripides | writer, used regular people instead of Gods, and tried to answer real life questions in playwrite |
| Columns | What supported many Greek buildings? |
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