Across
- 3. an athenian general, and the greatest historian (according to many historians)
- 8. the man who ran 26 miles barefoot, while sparta was pursuing him to tell athens who won the war
- 9. the most famous leaders of sparta
- 13. a military advisor of the greeks, and died in the war when the plague broke out
- 14. wrote the first recorded history called, history of the persian wars
- 15. one of the first philosophers, taught plato
- 17. a playwright who focused on comedy
- 18. another philosopher put he wrote down all of his thought and philosophies, taught aristotle
- 19. greek engineer and scientist, made the city syracuse
- 20. determined the earth was round and calculated its circumference
Down
- 1. king of macedonia, and the father of alexander the great
- 2. the second persian king of persia who planned to invade greece
- 4. a more realistic playwright who developed his plots
- 5. P_________ therum
- 6. only 20 when he came to power, but well trained as his father took him on military trips and other things of the sort.
- 7. the first persian king to wage war on the athenians
- 10. wrote the book elements, about the planes of geometry
- 11. plato's best student, another philosopher, but disagreed with plato on his views
- 12. was the first person to determine the sun was in the center of our solar system
- 16. a playwright whose most famous play was oedipus rex
