Across
- 4. a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army.
- 6. the Minoans lived on this island
- 8. the goddess of love and beauty
- 12. a special sporting event to worship the god Zeus
- 13. the goddess of wisdom
- 14. Olympus: the place the greeks believed the gods stayed
- 15. Sea: the sea the Greece settled around
- 16. a Greek city-state known for its navy
- 17. the god of the sea
- 18. the god of war
- 19. Zeus’s wife
- 20. they built these to honer their gods
- 22. belonging to the past or a very long time ago
- 23. the temple that sits atop the Acropolis in Athens dedicated to Athena
- 24. a Greek marketplace similar to an Agora
Down
- 1. the art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.
- 2. a Greek play that ended with the hero dying
- 3. a Greek city-state known for its military training and discipline
- 4. a traditional story, especially concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, typically involving supernatural beings or events.
- 5. a system of government by the whole population
- 7. considered the first Greek civilization
- 8. a hill that Greek polises were built on
- 9. all the eligible members of a state, typically through
- 10. representatives.
- 11. the god of the underworld
- 21. tactical formation consisting of a block of heavily armed infantry standing shoulder to shoulder in files several ranks deep
