Greek Mythology Part 1
Across
- 4. Goddess of love and beauty, born from the sea foam after her father was castrated
- 6. A Gorgon killed by the hero Perseus, whose eyes turned living things to stone
- 7. A princess that was saved by the hero Perseus from being sacrificed to a sea
- 10. Queen of the Underworld, daughter of Demeter
- 13. Winged horse and steed of Perseus
- 16. A Titan who brought fire to humans, was chained to a rock by Zeus
- 20. Hero who saved the princess Andromeda from a sea monster by killing Medusa
- 21. God of the Underworld, brother of Zeus
- 22. Brother of Europa and founder of the ancient Greek city of Thebes
- 23. husband and son of Gaia who imprisoned his children deep in the earth
- 25. Father of Zeus who ate his other children to avoid the fate of an evil prophecy
- 26. Three sisters who saw the future through a single eye that they shared
- 27. God of the Sea, brother of Zeus
Down
- 1. An early group of gods, Zeus fights them for control of the world
- 2. Grown in the Garden of the Hesperides, Hercules had to retrieve them in his eleventh labor
- 3. Half-man half-horse, one of these creatures tricked Hercules’ lover into killing him
- 5. wife of Cupid and the last to join the gods and goddesses of Olympus
- 8. The goddess of the harvest, her daughter was abducted by Hades
- 9. A mortal woman whom Zeus abducted by turning into a bull and swimming away with her
- 11. A mountain that was the home of twelve of the most famous gods
- 12. Goddess of wisdom, born from the head of Zeus with weapons and armor ready
- 14. The first goddess and mother of the most ancient gods
- 15. God of wine, theater, and religious ecstasy, he was the only god with a mortal parent
- 17. creatures who beautiful singing often lured sailors to their deaths
- 18. Queen of the Gods, her jealousy over her husband’s infidelity is infamous
- 19. Hero who completed twelve labors and died from a centaur’s poisonous blood
- 24. Goddess of the hunt and the moon, tricked into killing her beloved Orion