Across
- 1. long poems told about heroic deeds
- 3. a road used for trade and sharing ideas and communicating
- 4. not a native Athenian, educated and taught public speaking to many Athenians
- 7. a traditional story about gods or heroes
- 9. a government where all citizens share the running in government
- 14. The best-known writer of Greek comedies
- 17. Zeus's wife and is the goddess of the gods
- 19. god of the underworld, Zeus's brother
- 20. someone who rules with total authority and takes power by force
- 23. This is where the Greeks lived.
- 24. He was the first leader of Perisa and assembled the Persian Army
- 27. This is a spartan captive worker
- 28. She was the sister to Apollo, goddess of hunting
- 29. battle fought on a narrow strait of water
- 30. God of gods and the heavens
Down
- 2. comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom"
- 5. He used trickery to win wars
- 6. Greek poet who wrote the epics in the 700 B.C.
- 8. tiny independent country
- 10. leader of Athens that help form their democracy
- 11. first battle of the Persian wars
- 12. a type of democracy where everyone participates at mass assemblies
- 13. Greek leader who cancelled farmers debts and freed slaves
- 15. wrote the history of the Persian wars
- 16. The Persian religion they practiced
- 18. "protector of the kingdom"
- 21. Persian leader for the battle of Thermopylae, Darius son
- 22. a country that is today known as Iran
- 25. a place where people could meet and discuss issues
- 26. highest mountain in Greece, home of the gods