Ancient Greece Vocabulary

A drama that tells a humorous story

• Hellenistic

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Athena

A traditional story that explains a culture's beliefs or part of the natural world.

• Myth

• Torah

• Fable

• Ritual

A priestess who speaks for the gods and answers questions about what will happen in the future.

• Fable

• Comedy

• Oracle

• Tragedy

A story that teaches a lesson.

• Culture

• Trojan War

• Rituals

• Fable

A story that is told by the actions and spoken words of actors.

• Drama

• Tradition

• Belief

• Mount Olympus

A drama in which characters struggle to overcome problems, but fail.

• Myth

• Ritual

• Comedy

• Tragedy

Method of questioning to gain truth; developed by Socrates.

• Rhetoric

• Socratic Method

• Plato

• Athenian

A set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine.

• Philosophy

• Knowledge

• Hippocratic Oath

• Rhetoric

Soldiers who fight while riding horses.

• Marines

• Cavalry

• Mesopotamians

• Macedonians

Time after Alexander died and Greek culture spread to all the lands in his empire.

• Sophists Era

• Plato Era

• Hellenistic Era

• Transition Era