RASA: Vitalos' Greece Vocabulary
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- satyr
- a greek god with strong desires for a woman
- peninsula
- a piece of land almost totally surrounded by water
- magistrate
- a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law
- corinthian
- a thinner column with its capital decorated with leaves
- deity
- a god or goddess
- tragedy
- a story with an unhappy ending
- palimpsest
- a prayer book made of goatskin
- aristocratic
- grand, stylish; something consider the best of its kind
- sculpture
- the art of making 2 or 3-dimensional representations of the world or the artist's ideas
- fortress
- a military stronghold; an area strongly protected by a wall
- ionic
- a taller, thinner column with scroll shapes on its capital
- trio
- a group of three
- doric
- a plain, sturdy column with a plain capital
- philosopher
- a person who enjoys questioning the world around them and how it works