Greek Mythology
Across
- 1. half man and half goat creature who chased after Artemis challenged Apollo to a music playing contest
- 2. the spirit of love; one of the first immortal beings
- 5. Goddess of home and hearth; showed humans how to build houses
- 6. boatman who ferries souls across the River Styx to the Underworld
- 9. helps Theseus escape the labyrinth
- 12. one-eyed giants; master craftsmen
- 15. Aphrodite thinks this human is unworthy of her son
- 17. god of music;
- 18. accidentally killed by his grandson son when the grandson threw a discus in the games
- 19. was given donkey ears; had the golden touch
- 20. Zeus punished him by forcing him to forever roll a boulder up a hill in the depths of Hades.
- 23. ruler of the Underworld has a helmet of invisibility
- 25. failed to listen to his father's advice and flew too close to the sun
- 28. Chained to a rock to be sacrificed to a sea monster for her mother's bragging.
- 31. her talking kept Hera from finding her husband chasing after nymphs; fell in love with Narcissus
- 33. creator of man; steals fire from Olympus
- 34. titan who is forced to hold the earth upon his shoulders
- 36. her curiousit6y unleashes all the miseries on the world
- 37. god of the seas has a trident as a weapon
- 40. messenger of the gods; loaned Perseus his winged sandals
- 41. watches her husband swallow her newborn baby; later disguises later baby as a rock before giving it to her husband to swallow
- 44. the west wind
- 45. grandfather; King of Troezen
- 46. rejected every female that wanted him to love her; ended up falling in love with his own reflection
- 48. gave Rhea a potion to make Kronos vomit up the children he had swallowed
- 49. master musician who went to the Underworld to bring home his dead wife
- 50. God that chased after a newly married human but the chase ended with a snake killing the girl
- 51. Creatures whose eyes dripped venom; would stalk any child who killed a parent until the child went insane
- 53. the original Greek god of the sun
- 54. banished his triplets to Tartarus
- 56. Theseus' mother
- 59. granted Midas his wish
- 60. creature that was half man and half bull
- 61. the dark Underworld; acted as a prison
- 63. three-headed dog that guards the gates to the Underworld
- 65. robber who bends two pine trees ties his victims to the trees and then cuts the trees thus tearing the victims into
- 68. god of war
- 69. commits suicide when his son returns home but the son forgets to fly a sail to tell him he survived
Down
- 1. kidnapped by Hades
- 3. imprisoned Daedalus for allowing his wife to fall in love with a bull
- 4. punished by Zeus to forever go thirsty and hungry in Hades despite being stood in a pool of water and almost within reach of a fruit tree
- 7. completed 112 tasks as retribution for killing his family during a fit of madness
- 8. winged horse that sprang from the blood of Medusa
- 10. fell in love with a bull
- 11. robber who makes his victim fit in a bed by either cutting off their legs or stretching them
- 13. made unwelcome advances toward Perseus' mother
- 14. Her father locks her in a brass tower so she can't get pregnant, but Zeus comes to her disguised as a golden shower
- 16. Greek equivalent to heaven
- 21. The emptiness at the beginning of creation
- 22. robber who makes his victims wash his feet and then kicks them off the cliff where a carnivorous turtle eats him
- 24. birdlike creatures who lure sailors to their deaths due to their beautiful songs
- 26. youngest Titans; attacked his father and overthrew him
- 27. created the labyrinth and made wings so he and his son could escape their prison
- 28. turned a beautiful priestess into a hideous gorgon
- 29. goddess of the hunt and moon; has a silver bow and arrow
- 30. killed the Minotaur
- 32. ugly, lame god of fire and forge; thrown off of Mount Olympus
- 35. gave animals their special traits
- 38. winged god with a golden bow and arrows
- 39. goddess of agriculture; her mood determined the seasons
- 42. Forced son's wife to complete three difficult tasks to prove her love for him
- 43. three women who share one eye and one tooth
- 44. god of the sky has a thunderbolt as a weapon
- 47. a monster with snakes for her hair and a gaze that turns objects into stone
- 52. died on her wedding day when a snake bite her
- 55. leader of the Argonauts sets out to find the golden fleece
- 57. turned a talkative nymph into one who could only repeat what was last spoken to her
- 58. the oldest generation of Greek gods
- 62. his death lead Minos to attack Athens
- 63. robber who uses an iron kill to kill his victims
- 64. mother earth
- 66. young master craftsman who Daedalus pushed from the Acropolis
- 67. goddess of inspiration; Orpheus' mother