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Ancient Greece vocab
october 30th 2019
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Polis | A Greek city-state |
| Agora | Gathering place or market place; a public open space used for assemblies and markets. |
| Acropolis | The hill of the Parthenon |
| polytheistic | the belief many gods |
| Assembly | A meeting place or discussion place |
| Parthenon | A temple that worships the goddess Athena |
| Socrates | A Greek Athenian Philosopher; Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writer, writings of his students Plato and Xenophon. |
| Plato | Greek Philosopher who was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle |
| Aristotle | A Greek philosopher and polymath; was the founder of Lyceum and the peripatetic school of philosophy and Aristotelian tradition |
| Pythagoras | Greek philosopher and mathmation who proved the Pythagorean |
| Hippocrates | medical Practitioner; author of the Hippocratic oath |
| Alexander the great | Conqueror of Greece, Egypt, and Persia; founder of Alexandria |
| Homer | Was the greek epic poet who wrote the "Lliad" |
| Sarta | Warrior society in ancient Greece |
| Athens | The capital and largest city of Greece |