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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| myth | a traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people or something in the natural world |
| fable | a story meant to teach a lesson |
| tragedy | a play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems |
| ritual | words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony |
| oracal | a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess |
| oral tradition | the custom of passing along stories by speech |
| drama | a story written in the form of a play |
| comedy | a play or film that tells a humorous story |
| sophists | Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking |
| rhetoric | the art of public speaking and debate |
| socratic method | philosophical method of questioning to gain truth |
| Hippocratic oath | a set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine |
| cavalry | part of an army in which the soldiers ride horses |
| Hellenistic era | |
| epicureanism | |
| stoicism | |
| circumference | |
| plane geometry | |
| solid geometry | a branch of mathematics about measurement and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids in three-dimensional space |