The Odyssey - Books I-XII
Across
- 3. a prediction. (1)
- 6. a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, the smallest of the Ionian Islands. (2)
- 7. the woolly covering of a sheep or goat. (4)
- 9. a chariot driver. (3)
- 11. a member of a mythical people living in perpetual mist and darkness near the land of the dead. (11)
- 13. a defensive wall of a castle or walled city. (10)
- 14. the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. (4)
- 16. hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors. (8)
- 19. the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon. (12)
- 21. a supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks. (12)
- 23. a wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head. (2)
- 24. a man who pursues a relationship with a particular woman, with a view to marriage. (1)
- 25. a mythological island said to be the home of the goddess-sorceress Circe. (10)
- 27. poet who often visits the court of Alcinous. (8)
- 31. one of the rivers of the underworld. (5)
- 34. embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery. (5)
- 35. invested with sovereign authority. (8)
- 36. the king of the Phaeacians in the generation before Odysseus washed ashore on their home island. (6)
Down
- 1. an ancient city located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey. (1)
- 2. an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered. (7)
- 4. a blind Theban seer. (11)
- 5. a one-eyed giant from Greek and Roman mythology. (2)
- 8. a mythical king of Laconia. (4)
- 10. a guest at a banquet. (9)
- 12. any of a large class of inferior female divinities. (5)
- 15. a drink poured out as an offering to a deity. (3)
- 17. a Homeric Thracian tribe. (9)
- 18. the home of the Phaeacians and the last destination of Odysseus. (6)
- 20. a son of Uranus and Gaia. (6)
- 22. son of Nausithous and brother of Rhexenor. (7)
- 26. king of the Laestrygones. (10)
- 28. king of the overweening Giants. (7)
- 29. a sea-monster whose gigantic whirlpool swirled in the straits of Messina opposite the cliffs of the monster Scylla. (12)
- 30. in ancient Greek religion, god of the sea (and of water generally), earthquakes, and horses. (3)
- 32. stronghold of the cicones. (9)
- 33. the god of a dark region of the underworld and the personification of darkness. (11)