Ancient Greece
Across
- 1. a traditional story, especially concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, typically involving supernatural beings or events.
- 2. the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
- 6. the goddess of wisdom
- 7. a special sporting event to worship the god Zeus
- 10. a hill that Greek polises were built on
- 13. a Greek city-state known for its military training and discipline
- 14. all the eligible members of a state, typically through
- 16. the goddess of love and beauty
- 17. a Greek play that ended with the hero dying
- 19. Sea: the sea the Greece settled around
- 20. a Greek marketplace similar to an Agora
- 21. considered the first Greek civilization
- 23. belonging to the past or a very long time ago
- 24. representatives.
Down
- 1. a professional soldier hired to
- 2. a Greek city-state known for its navy
- 3. tactical formation consisting of a block of heavily armed infantry standing shoulder to shoulder in files several ranks deep
- 4. the god of the underworld
- 5. a system of government by the whole population
- 6. the god of war
- 8. Zeus’s wife
- 9. the god of the sea
- 11. the temple that sits atop the Acropolis in Athens dedicated to Athena
- 12. the Minoans lived on this island
- 15. they built these to honer their gods
- 18. Olympus: the place the greeks believed the gods stayed
- 22. in a foreign army.