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Greek Allusions - Group 1

Michael Bennington
Brooke Clarke
Charlie Munoz 
Across
Famous inventor who created the labyrinth to hold the Minotaur and created wax wings to escape the labyrinth; father of Icarus; stuck in the labyrinth like a dad who started painting the basement steps from the top step
Lover of Zeus; Hera thought she was a cow (and Zeus made her one)
Saw a beautiful statue and prayed to Aphrodite for a wife as beautiful; he saw the statue and liked the bust and the...bust
Fell in love with Cupid, then looked at him and was banished but fought her way back to him; weird, usually goes the other way
Did not love Apollo, at all; prayed to Gaia for protection and was turned into a tree; she was always the best at giving the silent tree-tment
Savior of humanity who stole fire from Zeus; really misses his liver; in Brooke's life, he is the light (he keeps her warm at night)
Killed the Minotaur and escaped the labyrinth; yea that labyrinth, the one from before; see Percy Jackson did not always get it right
God of love who fell in love with Psyche but demanded that she not look at his divinity; the divine version of "don't touch me I'm famous"
Son of Daedalus who flew too close to the son; “Don’t tell me what to do DAD!! You’re just trying to keep me down!”
Statue that came to life and became Pygmalion's wife; would do anything for her husband, even stop being a statue...now that’s dedication
Down
The warriors who traveled with Jason to recover the Golden Fleece; not the camera crew who went with Ben Affleck to film his movie
A talented musician who fell in love with Eurydice, and made a deal with Hades to get her back from the Underworld; like NSYNC if NSYNC was just Justin
Killed Medusa; yes, Percy Jackson was pretty accurate about who killed who, for the most part
Loved Daphne, too much; forced Daphne to become a tree; became the original tree hugger
Fell in love with his own reflection and starved to death staring at himself; in his modern incarnation, Blake Strahan
Nymph lover of Orpheus who was killed by a snake bite and almost saved from the Underworld by Orpheus until he looked back; "missed it by that much"
Denied lover of Narcissus, left so heartbroken that she could only repeat the words of others; cheated on by Narcissus, with Narcissus
Rescuer of the Golden Fleece and king of Iolkos; only Greek hero with an English name