Greek crossword
Across
- 3. The capital of the largest city in Greece
- 5. Not as boring and pain as the Doric columns
- 7. The most powerful god
- 8. Long distance running event
- 10. The goddess of the hunt
- 13. He was the first great tragedy writer
- 16. A body of myths
- 17. Ancient Greek epic poem
- 18. To settle in a colony
- 22. When on man, a tyrant, seizes power and rules the polis by himself
- 23. Discovered the Pythagorean Theorem
- 26. Ended debt slavery
- 28. A persons who's behavior is mainly concerned on money making
- 29. A government in which power is in the hands of a small, powerful elite, usually from business class is called an
- 31. The lead character struggles against fate only to be doomed to a tragic or unhappy ending
- 33. He was in charge of the Parthenon's sculptures
- 35. He wrote Oedipus Rex
- 37. Held every 4 years, no women aloud, athletes from all around the world
Down
- 1. Political center of the polis
- 2. A native or naturalized member of a state or nation
- 4. A prominent City-State in ancient Greece
- 6. Considered the father of geometry he wrote The elements of Geometry
- 9. The government ruled by a landholding, noble elite
- 10. Goddess of love and beauty
- 11. Temple to Athens
- 12. The god of the sun and light
- 14. father of medicine and wrote the Hippocratic oath
- 15. Ancient Greek city
- 19. The goddess of wisdom
- 20. He developed the socratic method
- 21. A socratic student he was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens
- 24. He wrote about the Peloponnesian War
- 25. The fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire
- 27. The battle where the Athenians destroyed Persian ships
- 28. Government led by kind and/or queen
- 29. One of the two major Greek poems
- 30. He believed earth was the center of the universe and he was Alexander the Great's teacher
- 32. Plain boring columns
- 34. Athenian lawgiver whose harsh legal codes punished both trivial and serious crime
- 36. Person who built the Parthenon