Across
- 3. A drama where the story ends happily.
- 4. Son of Philip II who conquered the Persian Empire, expanding the Hellenistic Empire from Egypt to India.
- 5. A Greek historian who wrote the history of the Persian Wars
- 6. A Greek philosopher who taught his pupils that the universe followed the same laws as music and numbers.
- 10. United the Greek city-states with Macedonia to defeat the Persian Empire.
- 11. An astronomer from Samos who claimed that the sun was at the center of the universe and that the Earth circled the sun.
- 14. A sacred shrine where a priest of priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
- 16. The poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- 18. Long poems that told about heroic deeds.
- 22. The greatest historian of the ancient world, who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War.
- 23. The belief that happiness was the goal of life and that the way to be happy was to seek out pleasure.
- 24. What a person leaves behind when he or she dies.
- 26. The belief that happiness came from following reason, not emotions, and doing your duty.
- 27. A student of Socrates who wrote the Republic.
- 28. Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything.
- 29. A student of Plato who wrote more than 200 books on topics ranging from government to planets and stars.
- 31. The most famous Greek scientist and inventor of the Hellenistic Era who worked on solid geometry.
- 33. A short tale that teaches a lesson
- 34. Asking pointed questions to force pupils to use their reason and to see things for themselves.
Down
- 1. The branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another.
- 2. The branch of mathematics that focuses on the study of ball-like shapes called spheres and tubelike shapes called cylinders.
- 7. A writer of Greek tragedies
- 8. An astronomer who was in charge of the library at Alexandria.
- 9. A poet who wrote short poems about the beauty of nature.
- 12. Professional teachers in ancient Greece.
- 13. A story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story.
- 15. A writer of Greek tragedies
- 17. A drama where a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails.
- 19. A Greek slaved who made up fables.
- 20. Traditional stories about gods and heroes.
- 21. A time when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek people of southwest Asia.
- 25. People who study stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies.
- 27. “Love of Wisdom”
- 30. An Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy.
- 32. The most famous Greek mathematician who described plane geometry in his book, Elements.