Across
- 3. (honor and virtue) is highest. excellence to which epic heroes can aspire.
- 5. (excessive pride) is man’s downfall.
- 6. the meter (rhythmic pattern of syllables) of Homer’s epic poems.
- 9. that great writers–-including Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare and Stephen Crane.
- 10. in which a writer/bard requests divine help incomposing or reciting his work.
- 14. in Greek mythology, were the white-robed goddesses of destiny.
- 17. God of prophecy, music, poetry, and medicine.
- 18. God of fire and metalwork who built the palaces in which the Olympian
- 19. oral storyteller.
- 21. God of the sea and brother of Zeus.
Down
- 1. Goddess of the home and hearth and sister of Zeus.
- 2. improbable solution in a story characterized when a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the unexpecÿed intervention of some new event,character, ability, or
- 4. King and protector of the gods and humankind.
- 7. can only be won in battle.
- 8. lived.
- 11. first great work of western literature.
- 12. served to fill in the blanks wherever there were no public records.
- 13. The Titan ruler.
- 15. were a mixture of Mediterranean and Northern peoples.
- 16. was born in the restless Greek world of the early 8th century B.C.E.
- 20. God of war and the son of Zeus and Hera.