Mythology Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| A long narrative poem telling of the origins and ideals of a nation and relating the deeds of a national hero is called an | Epic |
| The author of the Aeneid Is | Virgil |
| The Greek goddess Aphrodite became the Roman goddess Venus. She was the mother of _______, who escaped from Troy | Aeneas |
| The mother wolf took the infants to her cave. They drank her _______ along with her own cubs | Milk |
| The year 753 B.C is the mythical symbolic date for the founding of the city of _______ | Rome |
| _______ if credited for the Iliad and Odyssey | Homer |
| The sorceress | Circe |
| Odysseuss enemy | Posiedon |
| Their songs lured men to their death | Sirens |
| Odysseuss son | Thelemacus |
| Odysseus wife | Penelope |
| Lord of the winds | Aeolus |
| One-eyed monster | Cyclops |
| Goddess who was fond of odysseus | Athena |
| Menelaus brother; king of Mycenae | Agamemnon |
| He planned the wooden horse trick | Odysseus |
| Greek who was left behind | Sinon |
| Achilles vulnerable spot | Heal |
| Champion of the Greeks | Achilles |
| It was "for the fairest" | Apple |
| Country where Trojan war may have actually occurred | Turkey |
| He made the judgement that started he war | Paris |
| Some of the oldest stories in literature are found here | Iliad |
| Priam was king of this city | Troy |
| Author of Trojan war stories | Homer |
| A long narrative poem | Epic |
| King of troy; hectors father | Priam |
| Hector stole Achilles, which Patroclus had borrowed | Armor |
| Helen was kidnapped from this city | Sparta |
| The most beautiful woman | Helen |
| Only Trojan prince to survive the war | Aeneas |
| Achilles friend who died by Hector's sword | Patroclus |
| Bravest Trojan warrior | Hector |
| River in which Achilles mother dipped him | River Styx |
| Achilles special troops | Myrmidons |
| A wooden one fooled the Trojans | Horse |
| Husband of Helen | Menelaus |
| Aeolus | King of winds |
| Achilles | Greatest Greek hero of the Trojan war |
| Agamemnon | King of Argos |
| Aeneas | Son of Aphrodite |
| Antinous | Suitor of Penelope |
| Athena | Goddess of war wisdom and crafts |
| Calypso | Daughter of atlas |
| Circe | Daughter of Helios kept Odysseus on her island turned his men into swine |
| Charybdis | Whirlpool, daughter of Poseidon |
| Hector | Trojan prince greatest fighter of troy |
| Helen | Wife of Menelaus most beautiful woman in Greece known for being the cause of the Trojan war |
| Mars | God of war |
| Menelaus | King of Sparta Helen husband |
| Odysseus | Epic hero king of Ithaca |
| Paris | Carried off Helen son of Priam |
| Patroclus | Close friend of Achilles killed by hector |
| Penelope | Wife of Odysseus mother of Telemachus |
| Polyphemus | Son of Poseidon most famous of cyclops |
| Poseidon | God of sea earthquakes and horses |
| Priam | Last king of troy father of Paris |
| Romulus | Founder of Rome |
| Scylla | Sea goddess |
| Sinon | Greek warrior during Trojan war |
| Sirens | Lured sailors to their deaths with a song |
| Telemachus | Son of Odysseus and Penelope |
| Venus | Roman name for Aphrodite goddess of love |
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