Medea

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being (6)
  2. 4. A princess of Colchis who aided Jason in taking the Golden Fleece from her father (5)
  3. 8. Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells (plural) (9)
  4. 9. The modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens (7)
  5. 11. The husband of Medea and leader of the Argonauts who sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece (5)
  6. 12. Young people (8)
  7. 13. The Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages (5)

Down

  1. 1. The brother of Jocasta and uncle of Antigone who became king of Thebes after the fall of Oedipus (5)
  2. 3. Action taken in return for an injury or offense (7)
  3. 5. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (7)
  4. 6. An act of deliberate ___ (8)
  5. 7. Any utterance produced simultaneously by a group (6)
  6. 8. Goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology (9)
  7. 10. A two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle (7)