Philosophers and Writers of the Golden Age

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  1. 3. main character struggles against fate, or events.
  2. 4. plays containing action or dialogue and involving conflict and emotion.
  3. 5. Playwright known for his sharp whit, famous for writing comedies.
  4. 8. the study of basic questions and human existence.
  5. 9. upper class.
  6. 11. A playwright realist, questioned traditional Greek ideals and beliefs.
  7. 12. taught that education was the key to personal growth, insisted students be trained to think for themselves.
Down
  1. 1. believed everything could be explained in mathematics, invented the Pythagorean theorem.
  2. 2. first historian of the western world, different from Thucydides, more of an archaeologist than a historian.
  3. 6. the founder of medical science.
  4. 7. playwright that defended traditional Greek Values.
  5. 9. One of Plato's students who eventually founded his own academy, believed everything should be studied logically.
  6. 10. a wealthy young aristocrat and the greatest of Socrates students, founded a special school in Athens for teaching philosophy.