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