Across
- 2. Greek culture was spread far beyond Greece, with much attention to arts and sciences
- 7. the main marketplace in a polis
- 8. round straight stone constructions that can carry the roof of a temple or similar building
- 9. Macedonian king who defeated and conquered the Persian Empire
- 11. vote to ban someone from Athens
- 12. Greek theatre plays that are about people and the gods. Normally they do not end well
- 14. general assembly where all citizens gathered
- 16. a new city that was started overseas
- 17. Greek city-state
- 18. close hoplite formation
- 19. a country that has a king or a queen
- 21. person owned by someone else, slaves were at the bottom of the social pyramid
- 22. people who make a living just by thinking and talking about all sorts of things
- 24. Greek citizen-soldier, heavily armoured
- 25. a situation when nobody can make a winning move
Down
- 1. system of government where the best (aristos) or nobles are in charge
- 3. social layer of merchants and such individuals
- 4. (poor) working people with little power
- 5. ruling class of people
- 6. stories of the gods and demi-gods
- 9. the inner keep of the city where most of the temples were
- 10. Greek theatre plays that ridicule politics or philosophy
- 13. system of government where the people (demos) are in charge
- 15. games that were held every four years at Olympia, to honour Zeus
- 20. of rights and obligations between a country and its people
- 23. round straight stone constructions that can carry the roof of a temple or similar building