Orpheus and Eurydice
Across
- 2. a king who, for his crimes, was condemned to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink
- 5. an ancient stringed instrument resembling a small harp
- 9. while collecting flowers, was bitten on the foot by a snake down by the riverside and died
- 10. a cruel king of Corinth condemned forever to roll a huge stone up a hill, only to have it fall down again
Down
- 1. the upper edge of the side of a vessel
- 3. god of the underworld
- 4. divine beings represented as beautiful maidens who live in natural places such as trees
- 6. the home of the blessed, or those who were judged to have lived well after death
- 7. could make such heavenly songs that when he sat down to sing, the trees would crowd around to shade him.
- 8. in greek mythology, the river across which the souls of the dead are transported