Ancient Greek Philosophers
Across
- 4. ὁ Κιτιεύς Stoic founder teaching virtue as living according to nature
- 5. Garden philosopher pursuing ataraxia through simple pleasures
- 8. Nihilist sophist arguing nothing exists
- 13. Cynic founder emphasizing virtue as self-sufficiency
- 14. ὁ Σινωπεύς Cynic who lived in a barrel searching for an honest man
- 17. Neoplatonist envisioning the One as ultimate reality
- 18. Early atomist and teacher of Democritus
- 20. Skeptic from Elis advocating suspension of judgment
- 21. Milesian philosopher arguing air is the arche
- 22. Sophist declaring man the measure of all things
- 23. Alexandrian mathematician martyred for her teachings
- 25. Abderan atomist who laughed at human folly
- 27. Ancient Milesian thinker who deemed water the primary substance
- 28. ὁ Θηβαῖος Cynic mentor to Zeno and husband of Hipparchia
- 29. Critic of anthropomorphic gods and founder of Eleatic school precursor
- 30. Sicilian proposing four elements and love-strife forces
Down
- 1. Prolific Stoic systematizer who died laughing at a donkey
- 2. Athenian gadfly executed for corrupting youth
- 3. Ephesian sage famous for "you can't step in the same river twice"
- 6. Mathematician known for his theorem on right triangles
- 7. Eleatic who claimed "what is, is" and denied change
- 9. Peripatetic tutor of Alexander the Great
- 10. ὁ Ἐλεάτης Paradox creator defending Parmenides with arrows and Achilles
- 11. Pre-Socratic positing the boundless as origin
- 12. Clazomenae thinker introducing nous as cosmic mind
- 15. Second Stoic scholarch and author of Hymn to Zeus
- 16. Hedonist from Cyrene teaching pleasure as highest good
- 19. Idealist author of "The Republic"
- 24. Sophist known for linguistic distinctions and Hercules myth
- 26. Academic skeptic challenging dogmatism