Greek Culture Vocab

2. a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral
4. an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians
7. the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic, is one of the three ancient arts of discourse
8. a priest or priestess acting as a medium through whom advice or prophecy was sought from the gods in classical antiquity
11. an ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens by Epicurus that advocated hedonism or freedom from anxiety and mental pain, especially that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods
12. a form of a cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions
13. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
15. relating to a ceremony such as a religious ceremony
16. a traditional story that helps explain culture's beliefs

1. the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire
3. a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greece, associated in popular thought with moral skepticism and specious reasoning
5. a form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas, and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another
6. a philosophy that flourished in ancient Greece and Rome and that focused on developing virtue, self-control, and courage as a way to achieve happiness here
9. a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter
10. soldiers who ride on horses
14. the art of writing, acting in or producing plays