Yarettsy's Greek Mythology Crossword puzzle
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- 3. daughter of Oeneus, sister of Meleager, wife of Heracles; her jealousy brought about her husband's death.
- 6. son of Metion, father of Icarus; famed for his skilled craftsmanship and handiwork,
- 7. the goddess of love, born from the foam which sprang up when Cronus cast the mutilated members of his father Uranus Into the sea; according to another tradition, she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione,
- 12. daughter of Electryon, wife of Amphitryon; mother of Heracles by Zeus,
- 13. mounting a chariot as depicted in an hydria,
- 14. son of Laomedon, brother of Hesione, husband of Hecuba, father of Hector; king of Troy; in his youth he was also known as Podarces,
- 16. the most illustrious hero of Greek mythology, the son of Zeus by Alcmene, famed for his manly strength,
- 20. son of Daedalus; on his flight from Crete with his father, he flew too near the sun and fell into the sea and was drowned,
- 21. son of Priam and Hecuba, also known as Alexander; abductor of Helen and thus the cause of the Troyan war ,
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- 1. son of Zeus and Maia, herald of the gods and guide of the dead in Hades; known for his inventiveness and versatility,
- 2. son of Iapetus, brother of Epimetheus; he was sentenced to eternal punishment by Zeus for having stolen fire from heaven and given it to mankind
- 4. Greek god of the sun, son of Zeus and Leto, brother of Artemis; known also as Phoebus, or Phoebus Apollo, and Helios.
- 5. daughter of Zeus and Leda, half sister of the Tyndaridae and of Clytaemnestra; she was the wife of Menelaus, famed for her beauty, carried off by Paris, and thus the cause of the Troyan war ,
- 8. greek god of fire, son of Zeus and Hera,
- 9. daughter of Inachus, beloved of Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to avoid detection by Hera; in this form she wandered over the earth, driven by a gadfly ,
- 10. daughter of lasus and Clymene, companion of Artemis,
- 11. son of Atreus, younger brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen; one of the Argive leaders in the Troyan war,
- 15. the greatest god in Greek mythology, son of Cronus and Rhea, king of all the gods ,
- 16. the queen of the gods, eldest daughter of Cronus and Rhea, sister and wife of Zeus,
- 17. daughter of Priam and Hecuba; a seeress, granted the gift of prophecy by Apollo,
- 18. Greek goddess of discord; she was the only one among the gods not invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis; in revenge she threw a golden apple among the guests, and thus gave occasion for the Troyan war ,
- 19. the woman made out of earth by Hephaestus and endowed by the gods with all the graces,