Words Derived from Mythology

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Across
  1. 2. a Greek epic poem
  2. 4. a complicated network of winding passages; a maze (Theseus and the Minotaur)
  3. 5. one of a nation of women
  4. 8. a Titan who was forced by Zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders;
  5. 11. in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively)
  6. 12. of Scythia (who burned off the right
  7. 14. a priestess of Apollo in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed
  8. 15. Goddess of the rainbow;
Down
  1. 1. to put into a sleep-like state;
  2. 3. fire-breathing she-monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail;
  3. 6. Volatile, always changing moods
  4. 7. an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus
  5. 9. of enormous size, strength, power, or scope;
  6. 10. a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived
  7. 13. a riddling winged monster with a woman's head and breast on a lion's body