Ancient Greece
Across
- 5. the community structure of ancient Greece
- 6. member of a Hellenic people speaking the Doric dialect of Greek, thought to have entered Greece from the north
- 8. was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon
- 10. government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed to be best qualified to rule.
- 11. of or relating to a bronze age culture of Crete
- 12. the legendary author to whom the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey (the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature) is attributed
- 13. 18th king of Macedonia
- 15. pre-eminent Greek philosopher,
- 16. Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
Down
- 1. of the greatest philosophers who ever lived and the first genuine scientist in history.
- 2. series of wars fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century.
- 3. a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta
- 4. “to speak Greek or identify with the Greeks.”
- 7. tactical formation consisting of a block of heavily armed infantry standing shoulder to shoulder in files several ranks deep
- 9. the term applied to the art and culture of Greece
- 14. literally, rule by the people