Chapter 4 crossword: vocabulary and background

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Across
  1. 4. a liquid offering to the gods (8)
  2. 8. Romans built this as a house for a god (6)
  3. 10. Charon's role in the underworld (8)
  4. 13. celeriter (7)
  5. 14. place of punishment (8)
  6. 17. sisters who killed their husbands and spent eternity trying to fill a bucket with holes in it (8)
  7. 18. the Titan Prometheus had his liver pecked out by this as punishment for stealing fire from the gods (5)
  8. 19. mare (3)
  9. 20. tied to a burning wheel as eternal punishment (5)
  10. 21. this took place in front of a temple (6,9)
  11. 23. pugno, pugnare, pugnavi (5)
  12. 24. Roman god of the underworld (5)
  13. 25. iubeo, iubere, iussi (5)
  14. 26. Roman name of the god who guided dead souls to the underworld (7)
  15. 27. auxilium (4)
  16. 28. facilis (4)
Down
  1. 1. a tablet on which Romans would write a curse (7)
  2. 2. this was placed in front of the temple (5)
  3. 3. Roman priestesses who weren't allowed to marry (6,7)
  4. 5. diu (3,1,4,4)
  5. 6. the Romans also called this god Optimus Maximus (7)
  6. 7. Roman hero who visited the underworld (6)
  7. 9. place in the underworld for heroes (7,6)
  8. 11. mons, montis (8)
  9. 12. Greek musician who visited the underworld to try to retrieve his wife (7)
  10. 14. Roman prophetess (3,5)
  11. 15. wife of the king of the underworld (10)
  12. 16. a temple in Rome dedicated to all the gods (8)
  13. 22. the guard-dog of the underworld (8)