Famous Greeks
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- 2. the Greek historian Thucydides wrote about the war between Athens and ____________.
- 3. The ___________method is a form of dialogue based on asking questions to help with critical thinking.
- 8. written by Euclid, the is the title of the most famous math textbook.
- 12. father of Athenian Democracy
- 13. the conquests of Alexander the Great are known for spreading _____________ culture.
- 14. this mathematician had his own theorem for finding the area of a triangle.
- 15. this famous Greek was found guilty of a crime and sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock.
- 16. Sophocles is though to have written over one ____________ plays.
- 18. the father of Geometry
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- 1. he was known as the father of medicine
- 3. Aristarchus was an astronomer that was the first to put the ___________ at the center of the universe.
- 4. The epic poem the Iliad was set during the _________ War.
- 5. one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, he helped calculate pi and also developed a water screw
- 6. This Greek wrote fables
- 7. He was known as the first citizen of Athens.
- 9. he was known as the Father of History
- 10. father of Greek Comedy
- 11. _____________ was a philosopher and a teacher of Alexander the Great.
- 16. author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 17. he was the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher education in the Western World.