abitago: the ancient greece crossword
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- 2. a greek word for: few,small,or little
- 3. poem about the Greek hero Odysseus's long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War
- 7. a premier religious and athletic festival held every four years in Olympia, Greece, from 776 BCE to 393 CE, dedicated to Zeus
- 8. the greeks invented this form of equality under law
- 10. the greeks invented this to make people laugh
- 14. a prominent Bronze Age culture based on Crete from c. 3100 to 1100 BC
- 15. a state-owned class of serfs in ancient Sparta, positioned between free citizens and chattel slaves, who worked the land and supported the Spartan military lifestyle
- 16. a heavily armed citizen-soldiers of ancient Greek city-states (7th–4th centuries BCE) who fought in a tight, shoulder-to-shoulder phalanx formation
- 17. this word means goat song in ancient greece
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- 1. a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue that uses continuous, probing questions to stimulate critical thinking, expose contradictions in beliefs, and uncover underlying assumptions
- 4. a poem about heroes
- 5. shifted from mythological to rational explanations (logos) regarding cosmology, ethics, and metaphysics.
- 6. a greek city state
- 9. the first advanced Greek language
- 11. a board of five powerful, annually elected magistrates in ancient Sparta, serving as overseers who balanced the power of the two kings and the elite council (Gerousia).
- 12. everlasting life/cannot die
- 13. a queen turned into a swan by zuez in greek mythology