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Vocabulary Chapter 5
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Assignment # 10
Word
Definition
1. Myth
1. Traditional
story describing
gods, heroes,
or explaining
natural events
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Word
Definition
2. Mt. Olympus 2. Highest
mountain in
Greece; home
of the Gods
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Word
Definition
3. Oracle
3. Sacred shine
where a priest
or priestess
spoke for a god
or goddess.
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Word
Definition
4. Epic
4. Long poem
that tells about
legendary or
heroic deeds.
Example
Word
Definition
5. Homer
5. Greek author
who wrote epics
such as Iliad
and The
Odyssey
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Word
Definition
6. Fable
Short tale that
teaches a
lesson
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Word
Definition
7. Drama
Story told by
actors who
pretend to be
characters in a
story
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Word
Definition
8. Tragedy
8.Form of
drama in which
a person
struggles to
overcome
difficulties but
meets an
unhappy ending
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Word
Definition
9.Herodotus
“Father of
History”
9. Wrote history
of the Persian
wars; first
historian who
tried to
separate fact
from fiction
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Word
Definition
10. Macedonia
10.
Geographical
region north of
Greece
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Word
Definition
11. Legacy
What a person
leaves behind
when he or she
dies
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Word
Definition
12. Hellenistic
Era
Period when
the Greek
language and
Greek ideas
spread to the
non Greek
peoples of SW
Asia
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Word
Definition
13. EPICUREANISM Philosophy
founded by
Epicurus in
Hellenistic Athens;
taught that
happiness through
the pursuit of
pleasure was the
goal in life.
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Word
Definition
14. Stoicism
Philosophy taught
by Zeno in
Hellenistic Athens;
taught that
happiness came
not from following
emotions, but from
following reasons
and doing one’s
duty.
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Word
Definition
15. Astronomer
Person who
studies stars,
planets, and other
heavenly bodies
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Word
Definition
16. Plane Geometry
Branch of
mathematics that
shows how points,
lines, angles, and
surfaces relate to
one another.
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