Greek Mythology Review 1

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Across
  1. 2. Goddess of love and beauty, born from the sea foam after her father was castrated
  2. 6. wife of Agamemnon who murders him when he returns from the Trojan War for sacrificing their daughter
  3. 8. lover of Aeneas and Queen of Carthage, her anger sows the seeds for later wars between Carthage and Rome
  4. 9. Priestess who was given the gift of prophesy but who was cursed never to be believed
  5. 11. Three sisters who spun the thread of human life, measured it out, and then cut it to end the life of the person
  6. 13. Half-man half-horse, one of these creatures tricked Hercules’ lover into killing him
  7. 14. Titan who held up the sky and aided Hercules by retrieving an apple from the Garden of the Hesperides while Hercules held the sky
Down
  1. 1. Father of Zeus who ate his other children to avoid the fate of an evil prophecy
  2. 2. Goddess of wisdom, born from the head of Zeus with weapons and armor ready
  3. 3. Type of monster one-eyed monster, whose blinding by Odysseus offended Poseidon
  4. 4. A princess that was saved by the hero Perseus from being sacrificed to a sea monster
  5. 5. hero who flees the fall of Troy carrying his father and whose descendants go on to help found the city of Rome
  6. 7. Brother of Menelaus, High King of the Greeks, leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War
  7. 10. This warrior faced a choice of whether to live to an old age or die young and be famous forever
  8. 12. Goddesses who avenged familial murder, including Orestes’ murder of his mother