Crossword for Smart People

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Across
  1. 4. Command of character, guide of trust
  2. 6. Father of rhetoric and persuasion
  3. 11. the Masterful Bard of Thebes, Victor of Twenty-Six Dramatic Contests
  4. 12. Sacred poured liquids, offering to gods
  5. 15. City of Dionysus, cradle of drama
  6. 16. Time of speaking, moment behind speech
  7. 18. Silent and unseen, barred from the stage
  8. 19. Pride that blinds, the fatal flaw
  9. 21. Famous tragic king, plagued by fate
Down
  1. 1. for the festival, it's all men in Greece
  2. 2. Chorus’s first song, gate of the play
  3. 3. Fierce Stirrer of Compassion and Righteous Fury
  4. 4. Praised by Creon; reviled by Polynices
  5. 5. appealing to the strength of reason
  6. 7. media res, it means "plunged in action’s midst"
  7. 8. Hero, Sufferer of woes, noble but flawed
  8. 9. Father of persuasion, master of logic
  9. 10. Voice of the people, conscience of Thebes
  10. 13. denied for Polynices
  11. 14. brave-hearted sister, defier of kings
  12. 17. Chief lawmaker who rule through blood
  13. 20. holds the remains and is buried