Across
- 3. a fruit eaten by Persephone (pg 40)
- 4. a temple at Athens that is almost 2,500 years old (pg 19)
- 5. this was followed based on the phases of the moon (pg 28)
- 6. the girl who lived in both worlds, daughter of Demeter (pg 38)
- 9. it was believed these possessed human souls, a rule not to be eaten based on superstition (pg 37)
- 13. a mountain in North Africa said to be where the god Atlas lay down when he grew tired of carrying the weight of the heavens on his shoulders (pg 45)
- 16. was sent to earth to punish humankind (pg 23)
- 17. is a story written by Homer in which a Greek hero Achilles fought & killed Hector, a hero of the city of Troy (pg 11)
- 18. created the first human race (pg 8)
- 21. this was one of the contents in Pandora's box that was trapped inside (pg 24)
- 22. one of the stories written by Homer that describe events of ancient Greeks (pg 10)
- 23. a way to find out abut the future, believed to be messengers of the gods (pg 34)
Down
- 1. this was a natural part of life, therefore ancient Greeks didn't think of Hades as evil (pg 41)
- 2. followers of Orphism believed in this. It's when a soul of a dead person lived on after death and was reborn (pg 33)
- 7. cave believed by the ancient Greeks to be the birthplace of Zeus (pg 6)
- 8. a famous mathematician and philosopher (pg 37)
- 10. a river that flowed into the entrance to the Underworld (pg 42)
- 11. where Icarus fell into the sea after he had flown too close to the sun (pg 45)
- 12. mountain far north of Greece, where Zeus lived with his brothers and sisters (pg 6)
- 14. the ferryman who rowed the souls of the dead to their new lives in the Underworld (pg 43)
- 15. one of the Greek writers first to record the stories of old Greece (pg 10)
- 19. people who lived on Crete before the arrival of ancient Greeks (pg 27)
- 20. one of the lesser gods. He rode through the sky in a chariot (pg 16)