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- Phidias
- a very famous sculpture
- Delphi
- temple of apollo and the oracle
- Acropolis
- the hill above a Greek city on which temples were built
- Adriatic Sea
- north east of Italy
- Socrates
- a philosopher who encouraged people to question thir beliefs
- Peloponnesus
- a place in Greece, located between the mountains and the sea
- Ithaca
- the island and home of Odysseus and Penelope
- Corinthian
- a type of column
- Hellespont
- the long narrow body of water between Europe and Asia in present-day Turkey
- Aegean Sea
- West to Greece and west of Asia
- Macedonia
- an area in Asia, ruled by alexander the great
- Aristotle
- he studied animals and plants
- Ionian Sea
- sout of Greece and east of Africa
- Mediterranean Sea
- a sea north of Egypt, and the Nile river flows into it
- Thucydides
- he wrote about the wars between Athens and Sparta, considered one of the greatest historians in the ancient world
- Pericles
- the leader of Athenian
- Thermopylae
- In a war, the Spartans chose to make their stand there
- Dionysus
- the god of theater and wine
- architecture
- the art of designing buildings
- Parthenon
- the temple honoring the goddess Athena, built on the acropolis above Athens