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1
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Acropolis

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area in Ancient Athens with temples, became center of all Greek religious life

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antilogy

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a controversy or discussion usually found in a play

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Asebia

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impiety, disrespect

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Dikos Logos

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Just argument

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Adikos logos

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Unjust argument

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Dionysia

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Festival to honor Dionysus where tragedies and comedies were put on

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Elgin marbles

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Statues from the Parthenon taken by Lord Elgin back to England

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Esoteric

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Works intended for only a small group of experts (eg. all remaining works of Aristotle)

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Exoteric

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Works intended for a large audience (eg. all lost works of Aristotle)

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Frieze

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Band around temple with sculpture

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Hedone

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Pleasure

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Helots

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Class of serfs in Sparta between slaves and citizens

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Hero Cult

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Cults that worshipped heroes (esp. Heracles)

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Koroi/Korai

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Male/Female statues in the Archaic period used as status symbol and sometimes grave markers

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Metope

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Sections between the triglyphs with engravings

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Mystery Cult

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Secret cults that upperclass sometimes made fun of, most famous is Eleusinian Mysteries to Demeter and Persephone

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Nomos

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Human law

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Phusis

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Natural law

19
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Oikos

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Home

20
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Ostracism

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Athens dispelled people for 10 years based on a vote on ostrakon

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Parabasis

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When all actors leave the stage and the chorus addresses the audience directly

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Peplos

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Material worn by women (peplos kore)

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Phrontistai

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Nice word for intellectuals

24
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Phrontisterion

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Thinkery

25
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Sophists

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Dirty word for philosophers used by Plato to describe those he didn’t like

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Stasis

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Civil strife

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Stichomythia

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Tit-for-tat in plays that use the previous words in their reply

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Symposium

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Drinking party

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Time (with long e)

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look me up bitch

30
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Tragic irony

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Greater meaning in words or actions only understood by audience not characters

31
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Tyrannos

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Tyrant, the demos usually liked them

32
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Basileus

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King by birthright

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