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Additional hints can be found in the Global Glossary and on the following My Word! pages: The Vocabulary of Tragedy, Ancient Music, Ancient Poets, and Roman Authors.

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Across

1 Greek god of music.
6 A pick for strumming a lyre.
7 Roman poet who loved Lesbia.
8 Roman statesman murdered on the Ides of March.
10 An error or failure.
11 One of the few known female poets of the ancient world.
13 Roman author who wrote On the Nature of the Universe.
15 Roman orator who, in 43 BCE, is executed as an enemy of the state.
16 A double flute often used by a satyr.
17 An important element of tragedy when the protagonist learns new information leading to an insight.

Down

1 A rattle or castanets associated with the rituals of Dionysus.
2 Violent and outrageous acts against others
4 Ancient Greek writer of victory odes.
5 The appearance of gods by means of a machine in ancient Greek tragedy.
9 Roman poet who wrote about a thousand kisses.
12 Author of the Metamorphoses.
14 Nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

 

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