Eponyms of Greek, Roman and Nordic origin
Across
- 4. a forty-two-kilometer race; after a battle between Persians and Greeks
- 7. changeable; moody; after the Greek messenger god
- 8. of great strength; after a Greek demi-god associated with 12 labors
- 10. a jaunty and fit woman; from a tribe of mythical female warriors
- 11. food or drink working as a sexual stimulant; from the name of the Greek goddess of love and beauty
- 12. ~ complex; sexual desire of a man for his mother; after a fabled Greek king
- 15. a person characterized by self-importance and need for admiration
- 16. ~ complex; sexual desire of a woman for her father; after a Greek, mythical heroine
- 19. a day named after the supreme Nordic god (this one had many a name)
- 20. one of the days of the week; after the Nordic goddess Frigg/Frea, the wife of Odin
Down
- 1. an anesthetic named after the Greek god of sleep
- 2. the month named after the Roman god of duality and beginnings
- 3. torment or tease with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable; after a mythological king punished by the gods with the receding sight of food and water
- 5. one’s weakness(idiom); Achilles’ ~
- 6. a person having characteristics of both male and female bodies
- 7. a metallic element which at room temperature retains liquid state; after the Greek messenger god
- 9. the month named after the Greek god of war
- 10. tendon the link between the calf and the heel; Achille’s ~
- 13. a gigantic tomb
- 14. a day named after the Nordic god of strength and thunder
- 17. showing homosexual desire for women; after the Greek island, home to a Greek poet Sappho
- 18. an attractive, well-bulit man;