HUMANITIES
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CLASSICAL | REFERS TO GREECE'S CONTRIBUTIONS; REFINED FORMS OF LITERARY EXPRESSION, PHILOSOPHIC, & SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY & ESTABLISHED VALUES IN ART & MUSIC
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SIR ARTHUR EVANS | ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO LEAD EXCAVATION OF PALACE AT KNOSSOS PALACD ON THE ISLE OF CRETE
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ARISTOTLE'S ETHICS | PHILOSOPHY OF PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN CONDUCT; GOOD LIFE IS FINAL GOAL; DEFINE YOUR EDDENCE; FUNCTION IN LIFE TO REACH
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PROTAGONIST/ANTAGONIST | ON GREEK TRAGEDY, A LEADING CHARACTER HAS SOME TRAGIC FLAW TO WORK OUT ON THE CONFLICT WITH THE OPPOSING ONE
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OLYMPIC GAMES | ALL GREEK FESTIVAL INSTITUTED IN 776 BCE CALLED OLYPIADES, RACES & GAMES, EVERY 4 YEARS ATHLETES WERE NUDE
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WOMEN WITH SNAKES | BOTH RITUAL OBJECT & ART FEMAL FORM DRESSED IN FITTED OPEN BODICE & TYPICAL MINAON FLOUNCED SKIRT
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ARISTOPHANES | CREATED GREEK COMIC PLAY "LYSISTRATA"
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HOMER | A BLIND POET; ORALLY CREATED THE EPIC "ILIAD" & ODYSSEY" BOTH OF WHICH ARE NATIONAL POEMS OF ANCIENT GREECE THAT HELPED TO UNITED THE GREEK-SPEEKING PEOPLE BY GIVING THEM :LITERARY AUTHORITY TO THE COMMON HERITAGE"
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HUBRIS | EXCESSIVE PRIDE
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LION GATE | ON MAINLAND GREECE, KNOWN AS MYCENAEAN THIS WAS A GUARDIAN RELIEF SCULPTURE TO THE CITADEL ENTRANCE
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SCHLIEMANN | HE WAS INSPIRED BY HOMER; LOCATED WHAT SEEMED TO BE THE CITY OF TROY IN PRESENT DAY TURKEY & KNOWN FOR HIS EXCAVATION OF CITADEL AT MYCANAE IN GREECE
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PLATO | STUDENT OF SOCRATES WHO WROTE THE REPUBLIC, "ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE" (THE PSYCHE IMPRISONED WITHIN THE BODY)
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ILIAD | FIRST OF SO CALLED HOMERIC EPICS THAT TAKES PLACE IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE TROJAN WAR & IS THE STORY OF ACHILLES
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ODYSSEY | RECOUNTS THE LONG ADVENTUROUS JOURNEY OF ODYSSEUS AFTER THE TOJAN WAR TO RETURN HOME TO ITHACA
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3 MAIN TRAGIC PLAY WRITES | AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, & EURIPIDES
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SOCRATES | ATHEN'S FOREMOST PHILOSOPHER; SAID TO "KNOW THYSELF"; DIALECTICAL METHOS OF QUESTIONING
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PYTHAGORAS | BELIEVED ALL UNIVERSAL RELATIONS MAY BE EXPRESSED THROUGH NUMBERS; HE WAS THE FATHER OF PURE MATHEMATICS
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GREEK DRAMA | A FORM OF A PLAY OR ACTION ASSUMED ONE OF 2 PRINCIPLE FORMS: TRAGEDY OR COMEDY MUSIC, DANCE, & SONG WERE ESSENTIAL TO DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE; ACTORS WERE ALL MEN
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HERODOTUS | FIRST KNOWN HISTORIAN (FATHER OF HISTORY) HE BELIEVED THAT HISTORY SHAPED THE GREEK NATIONAL INDENTITY
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MINOAN | A CULTURE THAT BEGAN ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE NAMES FOR LEGENDARY KING MINOS WHO LIVED AT KNOSSOS
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DEMOCRACY | DESCRIBES A GOVERNMENT IN WHICH THE PEOPLE, DEMOS, HOLD THE POWER, "KRATOS"
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BULL LEAPING | MOST FAMOUS WALL PAINTING FROM CRETE EXPRESSES LEGENDARY MINOTAUR SACRIFICE
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PROTAGORAS | AN EARLY SOPHIST, WHO SAID; "MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS"
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MASK OF AGAMEMNON | GOLD FUNERARY MASK FROM ROYAL TOMB DISCOVERED IN THE MYCENAEAN BEE HIVE TOMB BY SCHLIEMANN
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