Ancient Greece

2. Greek geometrician and educator at Alexandria.
5. Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
10. An ancient Greek city-state.
11. A mountain pass in eastern Greece, site of Spartan defeat.
14. Greek philosopher.
15. A traditional or legendary story centered around a hero, deity or demigod.
16. Sovereignty held by one person.
17. A class of citizens holding exceptional privilege and rank, especially nobility.
20. Greek historian.
23. A seaport in N Egypt, in the Nile delta: founded in 332 b.c. by Alexander the Great; an ancient center of learning.
24. Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor: discovered the principles of specific gravity and of the lever.
25. A Greek historian.
27. Military formation of foot soldiers using spears.
28. A city and the capitol of ancient Greece.

1. The lowest class of ancient Laconia. Serfs who belonged to the state.
3. Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
4. long poetic composition centered around a hero.
5. Wars A series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.
6. Greek physician, the "Father of Medicine".
7. A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class.
8. Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.
9. Greek sculptor.
12. Greek mathematician and astronomer at Alexandria.
13. A ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
18. Athenian philosopher.
19. Author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
21. Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet.
22. A heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
24. The citadel of Athens and site of the Parthenon.
26. Ancient city of Greece famous for strict discipline & training of soldiers.