CH 8 Greek Civilization

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

• Sophists

• Oracle

• Comedy

• Oral tradition

The custom of passing along stories speech by speech

• Oral tradition

• Tragedy

• Rhetoric

• Fable

A story meant to teach a lesson

• Myth

• Tragedy

• Drama

• Fable

A story written in the form of a play

• Myth

• Oracle

• Tragedy

• Drama

A play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems

• Sophists

• Tragedy

• Rhetoric

• Drama

A play or film that tells a humorous story

• Comedy

• Drama

• Myth

• Tragedy

Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking

• Hellenistic Era

• Socratic method

• Rhetoric

• Sophists

The art of public speaking and debate

• Rhetoric

• Hellenistic Era

• Oral tradition

• Myth

Philosophical method of questioning to gain truth

• Rhetoric

• Hellenistic Era

• Sophists

• Socratic method

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

• Hellenistic Era

• Sophists

• Oral tradition

• Fable