The Hellenistic World

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Across
  1. 2. another name for reason and logic
  2. 4. different from the Hellenic age yet very much its heir and beneficiary
  3. 8. created by Theocritus, a new poetic form that described the lives of shepherds and farmers
  4. 9. desire-less state that the Hellenistic people wanted to achieve
  5. 10. a philosophy stating the world is governed by divine logos or reason
  6. 11. monarchy in Macedon and Greece
  7. 12. little picture, a type of poem that offered small portraits of Hellenistic life
  8. 14. richest, most powerful, and most stable of the Hellenistic kingdoms
  9. 15. common Greek language of the time
Down
  1. 1. new genre of theater, appealed to pleasure-seeking audiences
  2. 3. nostalgia for the Athenian Golden Age of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE
  3. 5. a mix of different cultures and customs, the world is a city and the city is a world
  4. 6. self-sufficiency
  5. 7. monarchy that spread Greek culture to what is modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan
  6. 13. platform for speaking