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Vocabulary for Greece Test

There will be a section on the test for these BASIC VOCABULARY words Ostracize Despots Tyranny Aristocracy Meritocracy Authoritarian Oligarchy Arete Draconian Spartan Bellicose Philhellene Venerated Sophistry Epicurean Stoic Cosmopolitan Patriarchy Flamboyant Ostentatious Skeptical Cynic Teleological (all things in nature have a purpose or serve an end) telos is Greek for purpose OTHER WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW FOR THE TEST. They might appear in a multiple choice section Helot Polis

Polity rule by many men (Aristotle) Trireme Hoplite Phalanx Historical and Art periods Archaic, Hellenic and Hellenistic Mithraism Mystery Cults Oracle at Delphi Delian League Acropolis Parthenon Humanism Olympics Tragedy and Comedy obviously!

PEOPLE
Pericles Themistocles Cleisthenes - founded democracy in Athens Draco (see basic list) Socrates Plato Aristotle Atomists Sophists Persian King Darius Marathon Xerxes Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea Ptolemy- Geocentric model Pythagoras

Thales - Earliest Greek natural philosopher Euclid Archimedes Homer- Iliad and the Odyssey Alexander the Great Sophocles - Antigone - Oedipus Rex (the King) Lucretius Atomist/Epicurean Nature of Things thunderbolts Hippocrates Father of Medicine Herodotus - Worlds first Historian (Persian War) Thucydides - Historian (Peloponnesian War)

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