| HOPLITE | A heavily-armed citizen-soldier of the Ancient Greek city-states |
| LEGIONARIES | Soldiers of the ancient Roman army |
| MILITIA | Body of armed citizens (7) |
| MILITIAMAN | Citizen soldier as opposed to a professional soldier (10) |
| NATIONALANTHEM | Many stand for this citizen soldier on border (8,6) |
| CORINTH | One of the richest and most powerful of the ancient Greek city-states |
| EPAMINONDAS | Who, one of the greatest military tacticians, led the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes out of Spartan subjugation? (11) |
| AGORA | A central public space in ancient Greek city states (5) |
| IONIA | Ephesus was one of twelve ancient Greek city states in this region, now in Turkey |
| DREADNOUGHT | Fear nothing from a heavily armed early warship |
| MANO | ___-war, a heavily armed ship (3-1) |
| ELEIA | What is one of the names of the ancient Greek district that corresponds to the modern region of Elis? (5) |
| SPARTAN | From the legendary ancient Greek city-state, the ... Army was one of the most disciplined and well-t |
| ECCLESIA | An assembly of citizens in an ancient Greek city-state; or, the congregation of a church (8) |
| STOIC | A member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium (5) |
| MYCALE | Battle of 479 BC, a turning point in the wars between Greek city-states and Persia (6) |
| AFGHANISTAN | Kipling warned the young British soldier of the consequences of being wounded and left on the plains of this central Asian nation |
| TRIREME | With three banks of oars powered by 170 men at an average speed of 7.5-10 knots, the largest of the Ancient Greek warships (7) |
| ICHOR | Thin watery or blood-tinged discharge; an ethereal fluid taking the place of blood in the veins of the ancient Greek gods |
| THEBES | Chief city of the ancient Greek region of Boeotia, destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC (6) |
