Eponyms of Greek, Roman and Nordic origin
Across
- 5. ~ complex; sexual desire of a man for his mother; after a fabled Greek king
- 8. an anesthetic named after the Greek god of sleep
- 9. one of the days of the week; after the Nordic goddess Frigg/Frea, the wife of Odin
- 11. the place of the muses
- 13. a forty-two-kilometer race; after a battle between Persians and Greeks
- 14. a gigantic tomb
- 16. a person characterized by self-importance and need for admiration
- 17. “good death” in Greek
- 21. an attractive, well-built man;
- 22. showing homosexual desire for women; after the Greek island, home to a Greek poet Sappho
- 24. the repetition of one’s voice caused by the reflection of sound waves
- 25. food or drink working as a sexual stimulant; after the name of the Greek goddess of love and beauty
- 27. sb extremely intelligent and therefore exceptional
- 29. changeable; moody; after the Greek messenger god
- 30. a great journey, after a Greek mythological traveler
- 31. the month named after the Greek god of war
Down
- 1. the month named after the Roman god of duality and beginnings
- 2. the colorful muscle around one’s pupil
- 3. a day named after the supreme Nordic god (this one had many a name)
- 4. a metallic element which at room temperature retains liquid state; after the Greek messenger god
- 6. box the source of all suffering
- 7. a jaunty and fit woman; after a tribe of mythical female warriors
- 10. 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
- 12. ~ complex; sexual desire of a woman for her father; after a Greek, mythical heroine
- 15. a person having characteristics of both male and female bodies
- 18. the link between the calf and the heel; Achilles’ ~
- 19. a type of jellyfish
- 20. of great strength; after a Greek demi-god associated with 12 labors
- 23. archenemy
- 26. one’s weakness(idiom); Achilles’ ~
- 28. a day named after the Nordic god of strength and thunder