Mythology Crossword

1. Who was Heracles’s first wife, whom he married at Thebes before his bout of madness in which he killed their children?
5. Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia are the spawn of what prominent river of the Underworld?
7. What son of Priam, who had gained the gift of prophecy when snakes licked his ears, was captured by the Greeks during the sack of Troy?
8. What Lydian queen was Heracles ordered to serve for a span of three years?
11. Who was Callisto’s father, a wicked king of Arcadia who had tried to feed Zeus human flesh?
14. Who, to escape his murderous step-mother, was carried from Orchomenos to Aea on the back of a golden ram?
16. When Telemachus went on an expedition to seek information about Odysseus, he first came to Pylos and spoke with what wise old man, a veteran of the Trojan War?
19. What Trojan killed Menesthes, Anchialus, Protesilaus, and Patroclus during the Trojan War?
20. Who stole fire from heaven to give to mankind?

2. Whose life did Heracles save by wrestling Death?
3. What monster threw herself off the citadel of Thebes when Laius’s clever son ended her habit of eating visitors by producing the answer “man” in response to her riddle?
4. Whose chariot did Atalanta help pull after she was transformed into a lioness?
6. What two-word rhyming English phrase is sometimes claimed — falsely, unfortunately — to derive from the name of a sacred plant that Hermes tells Odysseus to pluck while on Aeaea (no space)?
9. Who was the one child of Hermes and Aphrodite?
10. What mythological group included Brontes and Steropes and built Zeus’s thunderbolt for him, among other things they created in their forge?
12. After murdering her children, Medea fled to the court of what king of Athens?
13. Inspired by her own escape from Pygmalion, her murderous brother at Tyre, what woman helped the Trojans when they landed in Africa, though Aeneas abandoned her and left Carthage for Italy?
15. For what son of Celeus did the disguised Demeter serve as a caretaker?
17. On their voyage back to Iolcus, who purified Jason and Medea of murder?
18. What was the name of the person whose face is said to have launched a thousand ships?