Across
- 2. Spoken or written language as in ordinary usage
- 5. Mount of the gods
- 8. Incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
- 9. U-shaped stringed instrument
- 11. Messenger of the gods
- 15. Goddess presiding over poetry
- 16. God of the sea
- 19. Observing reasonable limits
- 20. Wrote “The Illiad”
- 21. God of the underworld
- 22. Wool of a sheep
- 24. A dense growth of bushes
- 25. A minor divinity represented as a beautiful maiden
- 28. River in Hades
- 29. Hero of “The Odyssey”
- 30. Ancient city in S. Greece
- 31. A tract of land surrounded by water
- 33. The sea nymph who detained Odysseus
- 34. A long story or poem
- 36. Son of Odysseus
- 38. Fruit that made eaters forgetful
- 40. God of the sun
- 42. Goddess of war
- 43. Inhabited the island of Scheria
- 46. Clothing
- 48. A deity uses him to speak
- 49. The quality of being crafty
- 50. The great dog
- 52. Immortals
Down
- 1. Pigs pen
- 2. A composition in verse
- 3. Sea monster near Charybdis
- 4. Excessive pride, arrogance
- 6. One who tends swine
- 7. Grey-eyed Athena
- 10. One who seeks to marry a woman
- 12. A characterizing word or phrase
- 13. Strike with a firm blow
- 14. Sorrowful
- 17. God of the ocean
- 18. Kind and generous treatment
- 23. Faithful
- 26. A person who predicts the future
- 27. A gaping throat
- 32. One-eyed giants
- 33. Muse of poetry
- 35. Odysseus’ home
- 36. This event lasted 10 years (two words)
- 37. Human
- 39. Predetermined
- 41. Goddess of sorcery
- 44. Sea nymphs (part woman and part bird)
- 45. King of the gods
- 47. A scarf
- 51. Star Circe told Odysseus to follow