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- 4. father of tragedy
- 6. was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer; created the concept of pi
- 7. a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
- 9. Greek philosopher who was the teacher of Plato; socratic method
- 16. a body of troops standing or moving in close formation
- 17. a war between Athens and Sparta, 431-404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of power in Greece from Athens to Sparta
- 18. the body of water which the Greeks used to trade
- 19. one of classical Athens' three great tragic playwrights
- 20. the method which Greeks first exchanged (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
- 21. form of Greek theater that intended to make an audience laugh
- 22. a form of democracy in which people decide (policy initiatives directly
- 24. greek city-state
- 28. was an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and formed in 478 BCE to liberate eastern Greek cities from Persian rule
- 29. greatest of ancient Greek historians and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
- 30. a form of government in which power is held by the nobility
- 31. discovered the Pythagorean Theorem
- 32. wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world
- 33. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
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- 1. father of geometry
- 2. largest city of Greece that developed the first democracy
- 3. student of Socrates and later became the teacher of Aristotle
- 5. legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 8. father of medicine
- 10. was an Athenian ruler who expanded democracy in Athens
- 11. classical age in Greece that has given us the great monuments, art, philosophy, architecture and literature which are the building blocks of our own civilization; the two most well known city-states during this period were the rivals: Athens and Sparta
- 12. first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece; replaced the prevailing system of oral law by a written code to be enforced only by a court
- 13. a form of government with a monarch (king or queen) at the head; first government of Athens
- 14. father of history;wrote about the Persian Wars
- 15. figure in ancient Greek philosophy he was a student of Plato who made contributions to logic, physics, mathematics, and physics; created the scientific method
- 23. a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution
- 24. Greek sculptor, painter, and architect, statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, built Parthenon
- 25. warrior society in ancient Greece that reached the height of its power after defeating rival city-state Athens in the Peloponnesian War
- 26. the term for Greek culture which spread during the expansion of Alexander the Great's empire
- 27. a Doric temple of Athena built on the acropolis at Athens in the fifth century b.c.
- 29. a cruel and oppressive ruler but in the case of Athens someone who wanted reform