Classical Greece Crossword
Across
- 2. A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
- 5. This type of column is the most complex, with carvings that looks like leaves at the top.
- 8. a large hollow wooden figure of a horseleft by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
- 9. This is a Greek column with short, fluted shafts and scroll-like decorations on its capital.
Down
- 1. The oldest and simplest of the three main orders of classical Greek architecture, characterized by heavy fluted columns with plain, saucer-shaped capitals and no base.
- 3. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- 4. A city-state in ancient Greece.
- 6. Greek for "high city". The chief temples of the city were located here.
- 7. A government ruled by a king or queen
- 10. A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.