Across
- 4. Keeps the poet neutral while telling the story (2 wrds.)
- 7. A comparison that spans many lines
- 8. An epic is a long __ poem
- 10. First epic
- 12. A larger than life person in an epic poem (2 wrds.)
- 17. Goddess of love
- 19. How poems were written and documented
- 21. Messenger of the gods
- 23. Reoccurring phrase for a person, place or thing
- 26. Present-day Iraq
- 27. God of fire and metalwork
- 28. Epic poems begin with an __ to the muse
- 29. Sky god
- 30. What the Romans call Odysseus
Down
- 1. 9 goddesses who presided over the arts
- 2. Dante's epic poem
- 3. Fixed rhythm pattern
- 5. Homer's birthplace
- 6. God of wine
- 9. They spun the threads of a person's life (2 wrds.)
- 11. The sun god
- 13. Zeus's father
- 14. Earth goddess and mother of the Titans
- 15. One eyed giants known for making thunderbolts
- 16. Goddess of the harvest
- 18. Where poems were performed (2 wrds.)
- 20. God of war
- 22. Goddess of the hunt and moon
- 24. Means "in the middle of things" (3 wrds.)
- 25. Goddess of wisdom