The Aedeid of Virgil/Hades: Lord of the Dead
Across
- 4. The Greek god of the sun.
- 8. The god of the underworld.
- 10. The mother of the twin gods Apollo and Artemis.
- 11. Greek god of messengers, travelers, thieves, and commerce.
- 12. The most famous river in the Greek underworld.
- 15. The greatest hero in Greek mythology, known for his incredible strength and bravery.
- 19. The "river of woe" souls of the dead were ferried across.
- 20. They were tasked with filling leaky vessels with water.
- 21. A region of the Greek underworld.
- 22. A King punished by being bound to a fiery, spinning wheel for eternity.
Down
- 1. A dull, neutral place where the souls wandered aimlessly.
- 2. It was where the Olympian gods resided and ruled.
- 3. A dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked.
- 5. His eternal punishment was to roll a boulder up a hill, only for it to roll back down each time he neared the top.
- 6. Souls of the dead drank from these waters to forget their earthly lives.
- 7. Giant creatures with one hundred hands and fifty heads.
- 9. Souls who could not pay Charon to cross into the underworld would end up here.
- 13. Transported the souls of the deceased across the river Styx.
- 14. The Trojan hero in Virgil's epic The Aeneid.
- 16. Punished by having two vultures eternally eating his liver.
- 17. A monstrous, multi-headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld.
- 18. A material that is harder than a diamond.