Across
- 4. long poems that told about heroic deeds
- 5. short tale that teaches a lesson
- 7. a type of government where power is shared with a small group of people
- 9. someone who has the right to participate in government
- 10. poet who wrote the odyssey and the iliad
- 12. sporting competition held every four years, originally in honor of zeus
- 14. a story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story
- 15. someone who takes power by force
Down
- 1. a government that gives people the power to rule themselves
- 2. a settlement in a new community that keeps close ties to its homeland
- 3. a body of land with water on three sides
- 6. stories about gods and goddesses that attempt to explain different events
- 8. Greek city-state where democracy was first created
- 9. a story that ends happily
- 11. Greek city-state that became a military society
- 13. a story in which a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails