Ancient Greek Vocab

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Arete

Personal Exellence

Chaire

Means rejoice; the way Greeks greeted each other

Polis

a city state

Acropolis

a strategic hill where a fort, temple, and market were located

Agora

a marketplace

Hellas

The real name of Ancient Greece (Romans renamed)

Hellenic Republic

Official name of modern day Greece

Hellenes

People who came from Hellas (Greece)

Colony

a settlement established in a distant land that still belongs to its native country

Lyceum

a place where lectures are given or debated with

gymnasium

basically the same as a modern day gym ehehehe!!