Greek Myth Vocab 2 Crossword
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
                      
 
 
Down: 1) son of Hypnos. He was the god of dreams2) was the name of the mother of Orpheus. She was the Muse of Eloquence and Heroic Poetry. Her name means “beauty” and “voice.”3) the goddess of the moon.4) the Roman goddess of luck and vengeance, mistress of destiny. Actually, her name was a variant of the Latin word, vortumma, meaning “turner”, because she turned the giant wheel of the year, stopping at either happiness, sorrow, life, or death.8) is a plain little word with a very dramatic history. The Greeks believed that that destiny was controlled by the three terrible sisters called the Fates.9) the strongest of the Titans who was forced to stand erect with his feet firmly planted at the earth’s edge and hold the sky upon his raised hands and head forever in order to keep it from falling upon the earth. Later the Greeks changed this concept to his supporting the earth rather than the sky12) the Roman goddess of harvest Across: 5) the Roman name for Hypnos, the god of sleep6) the Roman name for Zeus, god of the universe7) the son of Aphrodite, goddess of love. He would shoot his arrows of love and the person pierced would have a longing desire for the first person he/she saw.10) the beautiful children of Gaea and Uranus. They eventually overthrew their father’s rule and became all-powerful.11) the nymph fell in love with Narcissus and could not tell him of her love because she was under a curse to repeat only the last word of what was said to her13) the god of sleep14) the earth mother15) the Roman god of boundaries
 

 

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