Crossword Puzzle

Across

1. Home of gods, goddesses (2 words)

5. Greek for "city-state"

6. A long story poem

7. One of the three "highways of water" bordering

Greece (2 words)

8. Games honoring a god

11. Person who takes power illegally

12. Military houses

13. Greek reformer also know for his poetry

15. A Greek with the right to participate in government

16. Sparta's strength

17. Rowing ships

Down

2. Gave Greeks their alphabet

3. Conflict that brought city-states together (2 words)

4. What Greeks ate often

8. Rule by the few

9. Stories that explain beliefs

10. Limited democracy began here

14. Ruler of the Greek gods