Gio's Greek Crossword
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- 2. Hephaestus was born lame and was cast from heaven in disgust by his mother, Hera, and again by his father, Zeus, after a family quarrel.
- 5. Hydra the offspring of Typhon and Echidna
- 6. was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and mother of Ares (god of war).
- 9. first priestess of Hera
- 10. is one of the best-known heroes in Greek and Roman mythology.
- 12. was loved by the god Apollo,City of Troy was a city in the region of Asia Minor in modern-day Turkey, which was the setting of one of the most famous events in Greek mythology, the Trojan War. Echo a mountain nymph, or oread. Narcissus was so impossibly handsome that he fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water.
- 13. According to Greek mythology, Apollo was the son of Zeus, king of the gods, and the Titaness, Leto.
- 14. is the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. Priam the last king of Troy. Helen the most beautiful woman of Greece and the indirect cause of the Trojan War.HermesHermes functioned as the emissary and messenger of the gods, and was often presented as the son of Zeus and Maia, the Pleiad.
- 17. was the first mortal woman in Greek mythology.
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- 1. was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.
- 3. female warrior who did not want to get married.
- 4. one of the Titans, the supreme trickster, and a god of fire.
- 7. the personification of strife.
- 8. mortal princess, the granddaughter of Perseus and Andromeda.
- 11. of Sparta and younger son of Atreus, king of Mycenae. Athenamyths from later sources portray her similarly as helper of Perseus and Heracles.
- 15. Olympus the mountain was created after the Titanomachy, an epic battle between the young Olympians gods and the Titans.
- 16. son of King Priam of Troy and his wife, Hecuba.