Greek Mythology Commas Review

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Across
  1. 5. There are many interesting bizarre creatures and monsters in Greek mythology.
  2. 6. Zeus freed the Cyclops from the pit of Tartarus so Cyclops made lighting bolts for him.
  3. 8. Centaurs, on the other hand were half human and half horse.
  4. 9. Three of the Olympian gods were Apollo, Poseidon and Demeter.
  5. 11. Chimera, a three-headed monster had parts of a lion a goat and a serpent.
  6. 13. Poseidon was the god of seas, rivers and floods.
  7. 14. Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and desire.
Down
  1. 1. Centaurs, giants and satyrs are a few examples of unusual beasts.
  2. 2. Eros shoots his arrows at people to make them fall in love but Eros is known to most people as Cupid.
  3. 3. Echidna was a winged woman with a huge scaly serpent body.
  4. 4. There are many modern stories about Greek mythology for instance Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
  5. 6. People often refer to a tedious difficult job as a “Herculean” task because of the demigod Hercules’ strength.
  6. 7. Apollo loved the nymph Daphne but she fled from him.
  7. 10. Ares is the god of war yet he was known to be a coward.
  8. 12. Theogony was the first written origin story or cosmogony, of Greek mythology.