A PRESOCRATICS READER CHAPTERS 2-4

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Across
  1. 3. Herodotus reports that Thales changed the course of this river in order to help the Lydian army
  2. 6. Thales was made fun of for being eager to know the things in the _______ but failing to notice what was just behind him and right by his feet
  3. 9. Pythagoreans rejected the _______ methods of inquiry
  4. 11. What Anaximenes believed was the originating stuff of the cosmos, defined as a “dense mist”
  5. 12. Anaximander believed that this was the originating stuff of the cosmos; something indefinite and boundless
  6. 14. “If god had not fashioned yellow honey, they would say 
that figs are far _________.” (Herodian, On Peculiar Speech 41.5)
  7. 16. Xenophanes claimed that there was a supreme non-____________ god, who controls the cosmos by thought, rejecting the traditional views of The Olympian gods
  8. 18. Thales believed that the basic stuff of the cosmos was this element because the nourishment of all things is moist
  9. 19. the birthplace of Xenophanes
  10. 21. Thales believed that these objects had souls because they produced motion on their own (Plural)
  11. 23. Pupil of Anaximander
Down
  1. 1. Xenophanes argues that the earth is ________ broad and extends downwards _________
  2. 2. One of the Seven Sages, considered the first philosopher.
  3. 4. drinking party
  4. 5. Pupil of Thales
  5. 7. Thales bought out all of the presses that cultivated this fruit because he had astronomical evidence indicating its crop would be large that year. (Singular)
  6. 8. Xenophanes claimed that there is no _________ communication to human beings
  7. 10. “originating point” or “first principle”
  8. 12. disciples who venerated Pythagoras’ teachings on religion and the proper way to live
  9. 13. Where Pythagoras took refuge when him and his followers were driven out of Croton
  10. 15. The split of Pythagoreans who had more interest In philosophical, mathematical, musical, and astronomical knowledge.
  11. 17. tyrant of Samos in 530 BCE that Pythagoras wished to escape
  12. 20. Philosopher who explored philosophical, political, and religious matters with his followers in Croton
  13. 22. Pythagoreans believed that _____ were the key to understanding the cosmos