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