Greek Mythology Commas Review
Across
- 5. There are many interesting bizarre creatures and monsters in Greek mythology.
- 6. Zeus freed the Cyclops from the pit of Tartarus so Cyclops made lighting bolts for him.
- 8. Centaurs, on the other hand were half human and half horse.
- 9. Three of the Olympian gods were Apollo, Poseidon and Demeter.
- 11. Chimera, a three-headed monster had parts of a lion a goat and a serpent.
- 13. Poseidon was the god of seas, rivers and floods.
- 14. Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and desire.
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- 1. Centaurs, giants and satyrs are a few examples of unusual beasts.
- 2. Eros shoots his arrows at people to make them fall in love but Eros is known to most people as Cupid.
- 3. Echidna was a winged woman with a huge scaly serpent body.
- 4. There are many modern stories about Greek mythology for instance Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
- 6. People often refer to a tedious difficult job as a “Herculean” task because of the demigod Hercules’ strength.
- 7. Apollo loved the nymph Daphne but she fled from him.
- 10. Ares is the god of war yet he was known to be a coward.
- 12. Theogony was the first written origin story or cosmogony, of Greek mythology.