Across
- 10. Seven daughters of atlas, Zeus put them in the heavens as stars to escape Orion’s pursuit.
- 12. Possessed by greed, this man kills his father and steals his treasure. Hiding it in a deep cave, his possession transforms him into a deadly dragon. He eventually is killed by a hero urged on by his surviving brother, also consumed by greed to recover the treasure.
- 13. He fell in love with his own reflection in a pool and pined away while staring at it
- 15. Two figures were out traveling, picked up being offered two siblings as payment for slaughtered goats, and wound up camping in a giant’s glove thinking it was an abandoned hall. Later, they were challenged to feats of strength and skill, each failing fantastically. Eventually it is revealed that trickery and mystical deceit were used for victory.
- 17. He was a sculptor who fell in love with his statue. Venus heard his prayers and turned his lady of stone into flesh.
- 18. One man slew his brother and claimed the throne. The slain brother’s wife hid her son to protect him for the murderous uncle. Once grown, the young man’s mother begs him to protect the people of their lands from his uncle. After a series of vicious battles, the nephew defeats his uncle and assumes his father’s throne
- 21. Driven by jealousy over a hunting trip, he murdered another man’s slave, lied about it, declared an outlaw, banished. However, his “otherworldly” father guides him a great distance and he founds a legendary dynasty.
- 23. After a series of wild adventures and close calls, a man steals the mead that grants creativity and spiritual inspiration for his tribe accidentally blessing mankind
- 24. The king of a most ancient city goes on a quest to find immortality. He turns his greatest challenger into his traveling companion and good friend. Together they perform many great deeds, some of which anger the gods resulting in the death of the companion.
- 25. Boy who searched for lost sheep and slept for 57 years
- 28. The rightful prince is hidden away after the death of his father the King and raised by an eccentric hermit/wizard to be educated and tutored in all ways right and good. Unaware of his royal blood, the young man is employed as a servant (a page) to a local warrior. As it happens, the kingdom is in need of a new king, and all men have been called to perform a challenge of strength to win the title. All men fail miserably, and when his master is in need of a new sword, the page happens upon an unclaimed weapon and claims it…….by pulling it from a stone.
- 29. When he cut down a sacred oak (or ordered it to be cut), a goddess punished him by making him starve in the very act of eating. He endlessly sold and resold his daughter, who had the power to escape her owners by assuming different shapes. Eventually, he devoured himself.
Down
- 1. After a visitor threatens to steal both his wife and his mother, this man engaged in a brawl that, while he was victorious, left him with a permanent injury, a stone lodged in his forehead.
- 2. The story of one man’s eternal job to pilot a boat; however every day, he is attacked by a huge serpent. Eventually he gains the aid of a former rival/colleague who had just been replaced by his nephew as the lord of the family’s lands and its people.
- 3. A once-human fisherman became a minor sea-god. He fell in love with a lovely nymph, but she fled in repulsion. He asked Circe for help, but she fell in love with him and changed the nymph into the monster Scylla who was rooted to a rock and lashed out in misery at any sailor who came within her reach.
- 4. The guardian of stay-young-forever apples is deceived into leaving the safety of her village and falls victim to a pre-arranged kidnapping to pay off a blood-debt.
- 5. He earned the love of a dryad by saving an oak, but was blinded by her when he injured a bee, her messenger.
- 6. Every night, he swam to a priestess until he drowned
- 7. An island is settled by immigrants from the mainland. Eventually, a new group, the sons of the goddess (_), arrive bringing magic items and superior weapons. Despite having a common ancestor, the first conflict was with the (FB) over its refusal to share the island. Following a series of unimaginable clashes, the new group emerged victorious and established themselves as the dominant people in the prehistory of that land.
- 8. Jealous Hera turned her into a bear and Zeus put her in the sky. She became the Great Bear next to her son, the Lesser bear.
- 9. She agreed to marry any suitor who could defeat her in a foot race; losers would die. One young man distracted her with golden apples and defeated her to win her hand in marriage.
- 11. For revealing that Zeus had abducted a human girl, he was punished by having him try to forever roll a boulder up a hill in Hades.
- 14. This character is a very naughty monkey at first, costing much effort to tame him. He later becomes a loyal companion to a monk and has many adventures traveling great distances with him
- 16. A great hunter, he was blinded for getting drunk and insulting a maiden; after death, he became a constellation
- 18. He voluntarily gives up one of his eyes in exchange for one of the greatest prizes in the universe, wisdom.
- 19. A poor, elderly couple who welcomed two disguised gods into their home and were greatly rewarded for their hospitality.
- 20. Jealous Hera silenced a pretty nymph - giving her only the power to repeat what had just been said to her - to cut down on competition for Zeus’ attention
- 22. A flute-playing satyr who dared challenged Apollo to a contest of skill with the instrument.
- 26. The island of Delos, unlink either places, welcomed her when it came time her her to deliver her children by Zeus; a glorious temple rose up there
- 27. Skilled weaver turned into a spider by Minerva