The Ancient Greek Philosophers Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• tragedy : a greek drama that focused around a struggling person and ended in a sad ending.
• euripedes : a greek tragedy writer whose plots were more down to earth than other tragedies.
• pythagoras : believed all relationships in the world could be exposed in numbers. they made a theorem used in geometry.
• plato : a student of socrates who formed a school for philosophers and scientists to discover ideas
• sappho : a famous greek female lyric poet whose stories revolved around love and romance.
• aeschylus : a greek writer of tragedies. they introduced costumes, props, and stage decorations to greek dramas.
• sophocles : the greek writer of tragedies who wrote "oedipus rex", "antigone", and "oedipus at colonus".
• comedy : a greek drama that was satirical and inappropriate but ended happily.
• sophists : paid teachers of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient greece.
• thucydides : fought in the peloponnesian war and wrote the "history of the peloponnesian war".
• myths : stories about gods and heroes who try to explain how the world works.
• herodotus : known as the father of history and wrote the history of the persian war.
• aristophanes : the best known writer of greek comedies. they wrote "lysistrata" and "the clouds".
• parthenon : an athenian temple that was sadly blown up during a war.
• homer : a greek blind poet who wrote the "iliad" and the "odyssey".
• phidias : a greek sculptor, painter, and architect who built the parthenon.
• aristotle : a student of plato who taught people to live their lives in moderation.
• socrates : when a question was answered, they would challenge the answer with more questions.
• aesop : a greek man who was famous for his fables. one of his fables includes "the tortoise ans the hare".