Famous Greeks

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