2013 Mythology/History Parent Challenge
Across
- 3. Destined to bare a child greater than its father, to whom did Peleus give birth?
- 5. Which goddess did Paris Choose? (Roman name)
- 6. What NAME did the senate award to Octavian in 27 BCE?
- 8. Who killed Achilles?
- 9. The battle at which Mark Antony and Cleopatra faced defeat
- 11. What girl claimed that she could beat Athena in a weaving contest, but was turned into a spider when she failed? (Hint: from her name we get the scientific term for spider)
- 13. A mountain sacred to Apollo and home of the Muses
- 15. The second of the 3 main periods of Roman government: (in no particular order) Rule by Emperor, Monarchy, Republic
- 16. Who was the king of Troy during the Trojan war?
- 17. On what day in 44 BCE did Caesar die?
- 19. Who sailed around for ten years, spent seven years with Calypso, but never forgot about his wife?
- 20. What maiden helped Theseus out of the Labyrinth by giving him magic thread?
- 21. The pair of twins raised by a wolf, one of whom went on to found Rome
- 24. The other main conspirator of Caesar's assassination, slightly lesser well known
- 27. One of the two main conspirators in Caesar's murder
- 28. Whose face was said to have launched a thousand ships?
- 29. What king of Mycenae's (brother of Menelaus) troops fought in the Trojan war?
- 30. abbreviation meaning "from the founding of the city", the Roman used it to count years
- 31. The first wife of Aneas
Down
- 1. The original name of the coliseum
- 2. What hero killed the Minotaur
- 4. Who built the Labyrinth?
- 7. Oldest son of Priam and Hecuba and the greatest Trojan warrior
- 8. The ideal wife who kept her suitors at bay for the duration of her husband's absence
- 10. The temporary fiancé of Apollo who was given the gift of Prophesy, but was then cursed with no one believing her
- 12. The river Caesar crossed with his troops when he famously proclaimed "alea iacta est" (the die have been cast), officially declaring war on Rome
- 14. The Rape of the ______ women; the way the the Roman's obtained their first women
- 18. What maiden did Jason woo into killing her own brother in the quest for the golden fleece?
- 21. The third of the 3 main periods of Roman government: (in no particular order) Rule by Emperor, Monarchy, Republic
- 22. Who fell in love with his/her own reflection?
- 23. The son of Aneas that went on to found Alba Longa
- 25. What youth failed the heed his/her father's warnings and flew too close to the sun and fell to his/her watery demise
- 26. The first of the 3 main periods of Roman government: (in no particular order) Rule by Emperor, Monarchy, Republic
- 32. "The senate of the people Rome"; The abbreviation that served as the motto of the Roman Senate