Across
- 3. short tale to teach a moral lesson often with animals or inanimate objects as characters
- 5. independent state consisting of a city and its surrounding territory
- 9. ancient stories that reveal truths about human nature and why people act in certain ways by describing entertaining adventures
- 10. general study of knowledge and the world; Greek for "love of wisdom"
- 13. the messenger god
- 15. king of the gods
- 17. long poem that tells a story about a hero
- 18. god of the sun
- 20. goddess of the moon
- 21. Greek marketplace
- 22. goddess of wisdom
- 24. Hes famous for his fables and the moral of the story especially uses animals to represent this.
- 25. First group in Greece that didn't speak the language
- 26. god of war
- 27. a body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works
- 28. god of celebration
- 29. A high hill in Greece
- 30. a leader who held power through the use of force
- 31. god of the underworld
- 33. Famous woman poet
- 35. goddess of the hearth
Down
- 1. shipping and navigation pertaining to the sea
- 2. He made the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey
- 4. temple of Athena that overlooks the city of Athens
- 6. god of the sea
- 7. the spread of cultural traits from one culture to another
- 8. a portion of land almost completely surrounded by water
- 9. First technical group that did speak the language in Greece
- 10. Greek city-state
- 11. Type of government which people rule themselves
- 12. A government where only a few people have power
- 13. queen of the gods
- 14. god of metalworking
- 16. the form of Greek culture (Greek-like) that emerged after Alexander the Great's conquests
- 19. Rich landowners
- 22. the goddess of love
- 23. People who participate in Government
- 32. goddess of agriculture
- 34. belief in more than one God