Greek Mythology

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Across
  1. 2. The creatures that tore Orpheus into pieces,
  2. 5. The tree where Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet.
  3. 6. The instrument Orpheus plays, which is said to have the power to charm all living things.
  4. 8. The story of Pyramus and Thisbe came from the book of _________.
  5. 9. Adonis will be in her care during summer and spring.
  6. 11. The last words Orpheus’ wife told him before she was pulled back into the Underworld.
  7. 12. The goddess who was angered because of Psyche’s Beauty.
  8. 13. The beautiful, cruel sea nymph, who never returned the cyclops’ feelings.
  9. 16. The name of the book where the story of Cupid and Psyche came from.
  10. 18. Hera condemned her never to use her tongue again except to repeat what was said to her. “You will always have the last word but no power to speak first.”
  11. 19. He asked Nemesis to help avenge his failed love for Narcissus.
  12. 20. The God of Love/Desire
  13. 22. The god who helped Psyche to meet her sisters.
  14. 23. Hyacinth was accidentally killed by a __________ thrown by Apollo.
  15. 25. Because of Orpheus, the _______________ sing more sweetly than anywhere else at Mount Olympus.
  16. 28. The object which hurt Cupid in his sleep when Psyche lit his face. .
  17. 29. Psyche’s father traveled to an _____________ of Apollo to ask his advice on how to get her a good husband.
Down
  1. 1. Adonis will be in her care during autumn and winter.
  2. 3. Orpheus’s wife whom he tried to save from the Underworld.
  3. 4. He stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity, for which he was punished by Zeus.
  4. 7. The greatest of heroes, than whom hardly the gods were greater, and to whom Prometheus would owe his freedom.
  5. 10. A Cyclops, was blinded by Odysseus and his men after they were trapped in his cave.
  6. 14. The account of Orpheus with the Argonauts is told only by ________________ of Rhodes, a third-century Greek poet.
  7. 15. Orpheus, in other versions, is believed to be the son of one of the muses named ____________.
  8. 17. The fierce beast Thisbe saw and runaway from when she was supposed to meet Pyramus.
  9. 19. A watchman with a hundred eyes, to whom Hera gave Io to.
  10. 21. Every year the Greek girls mourned for Adonis and every year they rejoiced when his flower, the bloodred __________.
  11. 24. Europa, after being abducted by Zeus in the form of a bull, became the queen of _______.
  12. 26. Hera sent a ______ to plague Io which stung her to madness.
  13. 27. The name of the author who wrote the book in #27.