Across
- 1. great goddess; Mother Earth
- 5. Romulus and Remus explain its origins
- 7. home of the 12 Olympians
- 8. Greek mythological universe
- 12. male-dominated social structure
- 13. excessive pride
- 16. (Fields)also known as the Islands of the Blessed
- 18. influenced, adopted, and replaced Greek polytheism
- 20. Mycenaeans adopted from Hittites
- 21. setting for Sophocles' stories of Oedipus
- 24. Mycenaeans adopted from Babylonians
- 25. food of the gods
- 26. "So perish all those who seek to rival the ___."
- 28. famous oracle
- 29. Greek equivalent of Biblical Eve
- 30. Greek pastry layers
Down
- 2. Mycenaeans adopted from Phoenicians
- 3. setting for war in the Iliad
- 4. western political structure first instituted in Greece
- 6. hero of Homer's epic
- 9. one of the Ages of Man; time of warrior kings
- 10. month named after Janus, Roman god of beginnings
- 11. ruled the world before being conquered by the gods
- 14. author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
- 15. from Caucasus and Eurasia; entered Greece in 1900-1600 B.C.
- 17. one of the original Olympic sports
- 19. enemies of the Greeks
- 22. deepest, most miserable level of Hades
- 23. Roman name for Heracles
- 25. cultural center of Greece
- 27. style of Greek architecture
- 29. meteor shower from constellation Perseus