Crossword Puzzle of Greek Mythology
Across
- 3. The god of wine and fertility.
- 4. A sea god who could change his shape at will.
- 6. The first woman, bestowed upon humankind as a punishment for Prometheus's theft of fire.
- 9. The son of Zeus and Alcmene, a hero of extraordinary strength who won immortality by performing 12 labors demanded by Hera
- 11. goddess of destruction.
- 13. One of the nine ancient Greek goddesses who each represented a particular art or science.
- 14. The giant divine beings who preceded the Olympian gods.
- 16. A strikingly beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite.
Down
- 1. A Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to humankind.
- 2. The god of sleep.
- 3. Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder, who according to legend was forced to sit at a banquet table under a sword suspended by a single hair to demonstrate the precariousness of a king's fortunes.
- 5. A son of Laius and Jocasta, who was abandoned at birth and unwittingly killed his father and then married his mother.
- 7. The hero of Homer's Iliad, the son of Peleus and Thetis and slayer of Hector.
- 8. A beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection when he saw his face in a pool of water.
- 9. The god who is the messenger of the gods.
- 10. The fabled king of Phrygia to whom Dionysus gave the power of turning to gold all that he touched.
- 12. A daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon who with her brother Orestes avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing their mother and her lover, Aegisthus.
- 15. A legendary city where f the Trojan War took place.