Greek Mythology Crossword Puzzle Activity
Across
- 4. god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses
- 5. Greek god of trade, wealth, luck, fertility, animal husbandry, sleep, language, thieves, and travel
- 9. Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance
- 10. Greek goddess of the hearth and protector of the home and the state
- 12. Greek god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaughter
- 13. goddess of battle, strategy, and wisdom
- 15. God of lightning, Ruler of the Gods,Protector, Thunder and Lightning
- 19. goddess of sexual love, beauty, and occasionally presided over marriage
- 20. known as lovers of wine, music, dancing, and women
- 23. head and tail of a bull and the body of a man
- 24. goddess of force, power, might, bodily strength and compulsion
Down
- 1. hundred hands for wielding clouds and fifty heads for blustering winds
- 2. god of the underworld, kidnapping and marrying Demeter's daughter, Persephone.
- 3. god of practically everything – including but not limited to music, poetry, art, prophecy, truth, archery, plague, healing, sun and light
- 6. A blacksmith and craftsman, he made weapons and military equipment for the gods and certain mortals
- 7. incredibly flexible—so much so that it is said to have no spine two large ram-like horns or two pairs of smaller horns.
- 8. a legendary monster who lives on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite her counterpart Charybdis.
- 11. the god strength, might, power and sovereign rule
- 14. goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth
- 16. KYKLOPES forged the lightning-bolts of Zeus with their stormy brothers, the hundred-handed creatures
- 17. personified spirit of rivalry, emulation, jealousy, envy and zeal
- 18. goddess of marriage and the family,protectress of women in childbirth
- 19. Titan god of stars and planets and of the art of astrology
- 21. three-headed dog with a serpent's tail, mane of snakes, and a lion's claws
- 22. the winged goddess of victory--victory both in war and in peaceful competition