Greece Crossword

4. Ixion was an evil man who was punished by being tied to a wheel of fire that rolls forever
6. Apollo was Greek god of music and poetry. He was also god of prophecy.
7. Echidna was part woman and part snake
13. Ceres was the Greek goddess of agriculture and the harvest
14. hind The Cerynean hind had golden antlers and bronze hooves. It was caught by Hercules.
16. Actaeon was a hunter who saw the goddess Artemis bathing. She turned him into a stag and he was killed by his own dogs.
18. Fields The Elysian Fields were part of the underworld. They were a paradise for the righteous after death.
20. Danae was the mother of the hero Perseus
21. Patroclus was a Greek warrior in the Trojan war. He was killed by the Trojan Hector.
22. A gorgon was a female monster with snakes for hair. Gorgons were so hideous they turned anyone who saw them into stone
23. Demeter was Greek goddess of harvests and fertility
24. Echo was a nypmph. The goddess Hera cursed her so she could only repeat what other people said. Unable to speak to her lover Echo faded away till only her voice remained.
25. Daedalus was the first man to fly with his son Icarus
27. Morpheus was Greek god of dreams
28. Zephyr was god of the west wind
29. Talos was a giant living, bronze statue who guarded Crete.

1. Chiron was one of the centaurs
2. Triton was a sea god. He was the son of Poseidon and he acted as his herald.
3. Charon was the boatman who ferried the dead across the River Styx
5. Charybdis was a huge whirlpool that wrecked ships
6. Arachne was a Greek woman who was very good at weaving. The goddess Athene turned her into a spider.
8. Zeus was ruler of the Greek gods. He also controlled lightning, thunder and rain
9. In the Greek version of the flood story Zeus sent a terrible flood. Deucalion built an ark and survived with his wife Pyrrah
10. Endymion was a handsome man. Zeus put him into an eternal sleep in which he never grew old.
11. Atlas was a titan (a human shaped giant) who held up the sky to prevent it falling to earth
12. Tyche was the Greek goddess of fortune
15. Harpies were evil creatures, part women, part birds
17. Cerberus was a dog with 3 heads who guarded the underworld and prevented the dead from escaping
19. Aphrodite was Greek goddess of love
26. Boreas was god of the north wind