Ancient Greece

3. Author of the Iliad and Odyssey.
6. Greek historian.
10. A class of citizens holding exceptional privilege and rank, especially nobility.
12. Ancient city of Greece famous for strict discipline & training of soldiers.
13. Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet.
15. Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great.
17. An ancient Greek city-state.
18. Greek philosopher, mathematician, and religious reformer.
19. Greek geometrician and educator at Alexandria.
21. A seaport in N Egypt, in the Nile delta: founded in 332 b.c. by Alexander the Great; an ancient center of learning.
22. A Greek historian.
23. Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor: discovered the principles of specific gravity and of the lever.
24. Long poetic composition centered around a hero.
25. A traditional or legendary story centered around a hero, deity or demigod.
28. Athenian philosopher.
29. A city and the capitol of ancient Greece.

1. Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria.
2. Greek sculptor.
3. The lowest class of ancient Laconia. Serfs who belonged to the state.
4. A mountain pass in eastern Greece, site of Spartan defeat.
5. Greek mathematician and astronomer at Alexandria.
7. Greek philosopher.
8. Military formation of foot soldiers using spears.
9. Greek physician, the "Father of Medicine".
11. A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class.
14. A heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece.
16. Sovereignty held by one person.
20. The citadel of Athens and site of the Parthenon.
26. A ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
27. Wars A series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.