The Odessey
Across
- 3. Fruit that made eaters forgetful
- 5. Observing reasonable limits
- 8. U-shaped stringed instrument
- 10. Inhabited the island of Scheria
- 12. A scarf
- 13. Excessive pride, arrogance
- 15. Ancient city in S. Greece
- 18. God of the ocean
- 19. Wrote “The Illiad”
- 20. A gaping throat
- 22. Son of Odysseus
- 25. Mount of the gods
- 26. One who seeks to marry a woman
- 27. Star Circe told Odysseus to follow
- 28. Hero of “The Odyssey”
- 30. Pigs pen
- 31. A deity uses him to speak
- 34. One who tends swine
- 38. Grey-eyed Athena
- 39. Human
- 42. A long story or poem
- 43. Odysseus’ home
- 46. Sorrowful
- 47. The quality of being crafty
- 48. A dense growth of bushes
- 51. Incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
- 52. Immortals
Down
- 1. Sea monster near Charybdis
- 2. Goddess of war
- 4. Kind and generous treatment
- 6. Predetermined
- 7. Wool of a sheep
- 8. Faithful
- 9. Goddess of sorcery
- 11. Sea nymphs (part woman and part bird)
- 13. Messenger of the gods
- 14. River in Hades
- 16. A composition in verse
- 17. God of the underworld
- 21. Muse of poetry
- 22. This event lasted 10 years (two words)
- 23. Goddess presiding over poetry
- 24. A person who predicts the future
- 29. King of the gods
- 32. The sea nymph who detained Odysseus
- 33. One-eyed giants
- 35. A tract of land surrounded by water
- 36. A characterizing word or phrase
- 37. Clothing
- 40. Strike with a firm blow
- 41. God of the sea
- 44. God of the sun
- 45. The great dog
- 49. Spoken or written language as in ordinary usage
- 50. A minor divinity represented as a beautiful maiden