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- 5. Monster in Crete who ate youth from Athens every year. Killed by the hero Theseus
- 7. Grown in the Garden of the Hesperides, Hercules had to retrieve them in his eleventh labor, Eris used one to cause trouble at a wedding
- 9. Brother of Menelaus, High King of the Greeks, leader of the Greeks during the Trojan War
- 13. Priestess who was given the gift of prophesy but who was cursed never to be believed
- 17. Queen of the Underworld, Goddess of Spring, daughter of Demeter, whose kidnapping lead to the creation of the four seasons.
- 18. Half-man half-horse, one of these creatures tricked Hercules’ lover into killing him
- 19. A princess that was saved by the hero Perseus from being sacrificed to a sea monster
- 22. Clever Greek who came up with the idea of the Trojan horse and whose journey home from Troy is the subject of a great epic
- 24. hero who flees the fall of Troy carrying his father and whose descendants go on to help found the city of Rome
- 26. This warrior faced a choice of whether to live to an old age or die young and be famous forever
- 28. Goddess of love and beauty, born from the sea foam after her father was castrated
- 29. Most beautiful woman in the world, wife of Menelaus of Sparta, taken by Paris of Troy
- 30. creatures who beautiful singing often lured sailors to their deaths
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- 1. Hero who retrieved the famous Golden Fleece, sailed with men known as the Argonauts
- 2. Titan who held up the sky and aided Hercules by retrieving an apple from the Garden of the Hesperides while Hercules held the sky
- 3. Father of Zeus who ate his other children to avoid the fate of an evil prophecy
- 4. lover of Aeneas and Queen of Carthage, her anger sows the seeds for later wars between Carthage and Rome
- 6. wife of Agamemnon who murders him when he returns from the Trojan War for sacrificing their daughter
- 8. King of Troy who secretly approached Achilles to retrieve the body of Hector
- 10. Goddesses who avenged familial murder, including Orestes’ murder of his mother
- 11. Sorceress from Colchis who helped Jason retrieve the Golden Fleece and dismembered her brother’s body to slow her father’s chase down as they fled
- 12. Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who kills his mother and is driven mad by the Furies
- 14. Goddess of wisdom, born from the head of Zeus with weapons and armor ready
- 15. Hero who killed Medusa and saved the princess Andromeda from a sea monster
- 16. Three sisters who spun the thread of human life, measured it out, and then cut it to end the life of the person
- 20. Type of monster one-eyed monster, whose blinding by Odysseus offended Poseidon
- 21. First established by Athena in the trial to determine the fate of Orestes
- 23. Prince of Troy killed in one-on-one combat with Achilles who dragged his body behind his chariot
- 25. blind prophet from Thebes, gave advice to Odysseus in the Underworld
- 27. Hero who completed twelve labors and died from a centaur’s poisonous blood