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Additional hints can be found in the Global Glossary and on the following My Word! pages: Vergilian Terms,Theater Terms, Dramatists, and Drama Terms.

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October crossword puzzle

Across

2 a comic play or scene in a comedy
5 something with a triangular shape; this word can refer to such entities as wedges or triangular formations used in the military; this word also refers to the different sections of a theater’s seats
6 son of Anchises and Venus; hero of the Aeneid
10 a tragic play or a scene in a tragedy
13 the literary genre of the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid; often written in dactylic hexameter.
14 the last name of P. Vergilius Maro
16 a scene in a Roman drama (usually a comedy) which has music and dancing in it
17 Roman epic poet and playwright who wrote during the 3rd century BCE
18 any small story or drama
19 any work that has embroidery on it; curtains, especially those found in a theater

Down

1 a tale, story or drama
3 Roman comic playwright
4 an awning found in a theater
7 the theater’s stage
8 Athenian playwright, author of The Clouds and Lysistrata
9 Athenian tragedian
11 in ancient Greek, "dancing place"; circular dancing area for the chorus in the Greek theater
12 Greek tragedian, author of the Oresteia
14 the literary patron of Vergil and Horace who supported their work
15 having to do with agriculture; Vergil’s Georgics dealt with pastoral matters

 




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