Greek Mythology & History: Background

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Across
  1. 1. great goddess; Mother Earth
  2. 5. Romulus and Remus explain its origins
  3. 7. home of the 12 Olympians
  4. 8. Greek mythological universe
  5. 12. male-dominated social structure
  6. 13. excessive pride
  7. 16. (Fields)also known as the Islands of the Blessed
  8. 18. influenced, adopted, and replaced Greek polytheism
  9. 20. Mycenaeans adopted from Hittites
  10. 21. setting for Sophocles' stories of Oedipus
  11. 24. Mycenaeans adopted from Babylonians
  12. 25. food of the gods
  13. 26. "So perish all those who seek to rival the ___."
  14. 28. famous oracle
  15. 29. Greek equivalent of Biblical Eve
  16. 30. Greek pastry layers
Down
  1. 2. Mycenaeans adopted from Phoenicians
  2. 3. setting for war in the Iliad
  3. 4. western political structure first instituted in Greece
  4. 6. hero of Homer's epic
  5. 9. one of the Ages of Man; time of warrior kings
  6. 10. month named after Janus, Roman god of beginnings
  7. 11. ruled the world before being conquered by the gods
  8. 14. author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
  9. 15. from Caucasus and Eurasia; entered Greece in 1900-1600 B.C.
  10. 17. one of the original Olympic sports
  11. 19. enemies of the Greeks
  12. 22. deepest, most miserable level of Hades
  13. 23. Roman name for Heracles
  14. 25. cultural center of Greece
  15. 27. style of Greek architecture
  16. 29. meteor shower from constellation Perseus