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SS ch.8 notecards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of people, or something in the natural world | Myth |
| Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony | Ritual |
| A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess ops poke for a god or goddess | Oracle |
| A story that ment to teach a lesson | Fable |
| The custom of passing along stories of a speecha | Oral tradition |
| A story written in the form of a play | Drama |
| A play or a film in wich characters fail to come over a serious problem(s) | Tragedy |
| A play or film that tells a humerous story | Comedy |
| The art of public speaking and debate | Rhetoric |
| greek teachers of pholosaph,reasoning and public speaking | Sophists |
| Philosophical method of questioning to gain truth | Socratic method |
| A set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine | Hippocratic oath |
| Part of an army in which the soldiers ride horses | Calvery |
| The time period following the death of alexander during witch greek culture spread through the known world | Hellenistic era |
| The philosophy of Epicurus starting that the purpose of life is to look for happiness and peace | Epicureanism |
| The philosophy of the stoics who believed that people should not try to feel joy or saddness | Stoicism |
| the outer boarde of a circle; the meserment of that boarder | circumference |
| a branch of mathimatics centered around measurement and relationships of points,lines,angels,andsurfaces of figures on a plane | plane geometry |
| a branch of mathematics about measurement and relationships of points,lines,angels,surfaces,and solids in 3d space | solid geometry |