Greek/Roman Mythology

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  1. 1. turned Odysseus's men into swine until Odysseus compelled her to turn them into men again
  2. 6. this fire-breathing monster had the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent
  3. 11. he rescued his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld
  4. 14. she almost destroyed the human race when she allowed her curiosity to get the better of her
  5. 16. the goddess of love was formed from the foam of the castrated genitals of Uranus
  6. 17. in Roman mythology he is Mars; in Greek mythology he is
  7. 22. these three daughters dressed in black, determine how long one would live
  8. 23. it is a place of paradisal afterlife for the righteous and the heroic
  9. 25. he literally carried the weight of the world
  10. 30. as the goddess of retribution her task was to mete out justice by punishing the wicked
  11. 31. he killed the Minotaur
  12. 33. a ferryman who transports souls from the world of the living to the world of the dead
  13. 35. Prometheus stole this from the gods as a gift for man
  14. 37. Athene changed this princess into a spider so that rather than weave her exquisite tapestries, she would weave webs instead
  15. 39. she was cursed to repeat only the last words she heard, and eventually faded away until only her voice remained
  16. 40. every nine years this hideous monster demanded that Athens sacrifice seven youths and seven maidens to satisfy its hunger
  17. 41. he became invincible except in this one spot
  18. 42. his arrows compelled anyone he impales with his bow and arrow to fall in love
  19. 46. an epic poem attributed to Homer
  20. 47. born from the thigh of Zeus, he is the god of wine
  21. 48. the Trojan War lasted this many years
  22. 49. this child gave her father a pain in the head
  23. 50. she had a gift of prophecy, but no one would believe her
  24. 52. she waited twenty years for Odysseus's return from the Trojan War
  25. 53. the mother of Helen of Troy
  26. 56. he killed his father with a sickle his mother had made
  27. 57. the brother of Prometheus
  28. 59. the wife of menelaus
  29. 60. hercules killed these winged, man-eating predators
  30. 61. the Roman god of the seas
  31. 63. the messenger of the gods
  32. 64. Hercules' wife
Down
  1. 2. flew too close to the sun
  2. 3. Eros, the goddess of the dawn,asked Zeus to make him her lover, immortal, but forgot to ask that he also be granted eternal youth
  3. 4. a skilled Athenian architect and craftsman
  4. 5. the Greek epic, attributed to Homer, recounts the final weeks of the Trojan War
  5. 7. this three-headed beast was a decided underdog against Hercules
  6. 8. the symbol of Zeus and of the power he wields
  7. 9. suffered from liver trouble
  8. 10. the sun of Helios, the sun-god
  9. 12. this Gorgon was decapitated and from her bleeding neck sprang Pegasus
  10. 13. Splendor, Laughter, and Good Cheer
  11. 15. Hercules shot him when he caught him"horsing around" with his wife
  12. 18. punished for thinking he was more clever than Zeus
  13. 19. this winged steed was the Carrier of Zeus's thunderbolt
  14. 20. these giant monsters saw literally eye-to-eye
  15. 21. the noblest of Muses and the goddess of epic poetry
  16. 24. Hercules proved to this monster that two heads are not necessarily better than one
  17. 26. Hercules made himself a suit of impenetrable armour
  18. 27. abducted by Hades
  19. 28. Daedalus constructed this for Minos, King of Crete, to house the Minotaur
  20. 29. the Queen of the Amazons, Hercules killed her after she gave him her golden girdle
  21. 32. also called the Eumenides, these spirits could torment the life out of you
  22. 34. he was gorged to death by a boar
  23. 36. heads were entwined with writhing, poisonous snakes
  24. 38. the first and greatest period in history
  25. 43. these women murdered their husbands on their wedding night
  26. 44. Hera sent these to kill Hercules in his crib
  27. 45. the home of the gods
  28. 48. Hercules had to perform these many labors as a penance for killing his family in a fit of insanity
  29. 51. he loved himself when he saw his reflection in a pool
  30. 54. she chopped up her own brother to help her husband, Jason, escape from her father, King Aeetes
  31. 55. he found and killed the Gorgon Medusa as she slept
  32. 58. he was given the helm of darkness and ruled over the realm of the dead
  33. 62. he killed his father and married his mother