Myth and Religion - Technical Terms

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  1. 2. Good relations with the Greek gods, maintained by respecting proper religious rules (6)
  2. 5. A king whose stable Heracles was forced to clean (6)
  3. 6. This Roman festival honoured the ancestors once a year (10)
  4. 11. This Athenian festival honoured the dead and celebrated the maturing of new wine (11)
  5. 13. Roman goddess of the earth, depicted on the Altar of Peace (6)
  6. 14. "Peace with the gods": what the Romans tried to maintain through proper religious rites (3, 6)
  7. 16. A Greek word for a priest able to read omens (6)
  8. 17. The high priest of Rome: a title generally held by the emperor (8, 7)
  9. 19. The "laying out" of the body in a Greek funeral (9)
  10. 21. The father of Theseus (6)
  11. 23. The front room of a Greek temple (7)
  12. 25. The elevated foundation on which a Roman temple stood (6)
  13. 26. A ritual song or cry of mourning, given at a funeral (6)
  14. 27. The ferryman of the Underworld: Greeks and Romans were buried with a coin for him (6)
  15. 30. Athenian statesman responsible for building the Parthenon (8)
  16. 31. One of only two Greek festivals to include a hecatomb
  17. 32. This Athenian festival honoured the dead through sacrifices and visits to their tombs (7)
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  1. 1. Site of a famous temple of Apollo in southwest Greece (6)
  2. 3. These six priestesses guarded the flame of Vesta in Rome (6, 7)
  3. 4. A Roman priest responsible for reading the entrails of sacrificed animals (8)
  4. 6. A temple dedicated by Augustus in the Campus Martius (8)
  5. 7. A drinking-cup used in Ancient Greece; one of these famously depicts the Labours of Theseus (5)
  6. 8. Site of the Temple of Hercules Victor and the Temple of Portunus in Rome (5, 7)
  7. 9. An instrument played in a Greek sacrifice or funeral (5)
  8. 10. The triangular structure on either side of an ancient temple (8)
  9. 12. The rear room of a Greek temple, used to store treasure (12)
  10. 15. A robe - two of these were made during the Great Panathenaia and taken to the Parthenon and Erechtheion (6)
  11. 18. This Roman festival was aimed at appeasing the spirits of the unhappy dead (7)
  12. 20. A Roman festival dedicated to a god of fertility, and to Romulus (10)
  13. 22. A race involving jumping from a chariot, carried out at the Great Panathenaia (8)
  14. 24. Greek term for a rectangular gravestone (5)
  15. 28. The Greek word for a procession - such as those at the City Dionysia and the Great Panathenaia (5)
  16. 29. One of the most important fifteen priests in Rome (8)