WH-Ch. 8 Greek Civilization Vocabulary

The time period following the death of Alexander during which Greek culture spread through the known world

• Hellenistic Era

• Alexander's Legacy

• War with Persia

• HIppocratic Oath

Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning and public speaking

• Sophists

• Socratic method

• Aristotle

• Plato

Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony

• comedy

• tragedy

• drama

• ritual

A play or film that tells a humorous story

• drama

• tragedy

• comedy

• oral tradition

Part of an army in which the soldiers ride horses

• rhetoric

• cavalry

• reject

• fable

Philosophical method of questioning to gain truth

• Rhetoric

• Sophists

• Socratic Method

• Hippocratic Oath

The art of public speaking and debate

• reject

• reveal

• rhetoric

• review

A story written in the form of a play

• drama

• tragedy

• comedy

• fable

The custom of passing along stories by speech

• rhetoric

• oral tradition

• oracle

• ritual

A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess

• ritual

• tragedy

• fable

• oracle