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a traditional story that explains a culture’s beliefs or part of the natural world.
myth
words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony.
ritual
a priestess who speaks for the gods and answers questions about what will happen in the future.
oracle
a story that teaches a lesson.
fable
the custom of passing stories from one generation to the next by telling the stories out loud.
oral tradition
a story that is told by the actions and spoken words of an actor.
drama
a drama in which characters struggle to overcome problems, but fail.
tragedy
a drama that tells a humorous story.
comedy
Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking.
Sophists
the art of public speaking and debate.
rhetoric
- philosophical method of questioning to gain truth; developed by Socrates.
Socratic method
a set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine.
Hippocratic Oath
soldiers who fight while riding horses.
calvary
the time period after Alexander died when Greek culture spread to all the lands in his empire.
Hellenistic Era
the philosophy of Epicurus, which says that the purpose of life is to find happiness and peace.
Epicureanism
the philosophy of the Stoics, which says that people should use reason and not emotion.
Stoicism
the outer border of a circle; the measurement of that border.
circumference
branch of mathematics that shows the relationship of points, lines, angles, and surfaces of figures that are flat or level.
plane geometry
branch of mathematics that shows the relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids in three dimensional space.
solid geometry
