mythology
Across
- 2. trojan hero killed by achilles
- 3. eldest and most beautiful of the seven Pleiades (daughters of Atlas), mother of hermes
- 4. the number of labours that hercules had to perform - as imposed on by Eurystheus.
- 5. son of zeus borhter of hermes. hermes stole oxen from him
- 6. "cradle" of Trojan and Italian civilization
- 9. the immortal goddess of harmony and concord. Her Roman counterpart is Concordia, and her Greek opposite is Eris, whose Roman counterpart is Discordia.
- 10. hermes in greek, a liquid metal, wednesday in spanish
- 12. giant who forged the lightning-bolts of Zeus, Trident of Poseidon and Helmet of Hades
- 13. minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from goddesses, usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing
- 14. the same symbol as
- 15. odysseus roman equivallent. famous because of homers illiad.
- 16. monster dog with 3 heads
- 18. horse god
- 22. conductor of shades to hades
- 23. the only mortal sea monster
- 26. ___ of the underworld: minos rhadamanthus aeacus
- 27. she tossed the golden apple into the wedding feast which began the trojan war (hera aphroditis & athena all wanted the apple since it was ‘to the fairest’ and zeus made the mortal paris be the judge
- 28. killed achilles
- 29. the greek god equivalent of roman god pluto
- 31. roman god of war
- 32. the titan who held up the celestial spheres
- 33. a giant huntsman whom Zeus placed among the stars
Down
- 1. the roman equivalent of greek god Phospherous
- 3. Roman god of commerce and gain
- 5. Greek Trogan hero hated who dude that ran Greece. killed Hector
- 7. son of Zeus and Alcmene, and the great grandson of Perseus
- 8. god of wine
- 10. the roman god equivalent of Ares
- 11. put in the mouth of the dead to pay the river boat men for taken them to the underworld
- 17. Temple of ___ one of the best preserved Roman temples in the world. dedicated to the god of wine. in lebanon. larger than the pantheon, but less famous
- 19. Trojan prince __ was cast as husband of Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus, patronymical ancestor of the Latini, and therefore through a convoluted revisionist genealogy as forebear of Romulus and Remus.
- 20. king of Myrmidons father of achilles. married to thetis
- 21. greek god of the ‘son’
- 24. atlas mountain location. continent
- 25. the number of rivers of the realm of hades
- 29. was the choice paris made since Aphrodite made his desire for her overwhelming
- 30. the river of hate