Palingenesis Crossword

Created by Yasmin, London, March 2023

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Answers

Metamorphoses – Famous work by Ovid about transformation

Narcissus – Youth turned into a flower after falling in love with his own reflection

Arachne – Boastful weaver transformed into a spider

Actaeon – Man turned into a deer by Artemis and killed by his won hounds

Constantinople – The fall of this city to the Turks caused many Byzantine scholars to come to Western Europe

Demeter – Goddess responsible for the changing of seasons

Tiresias – Blind seer from Thebes who was turned into a woman for seven years

Circe – A sorceress who changed Odysseus’ men into pigs

Phoenix – A bird that regenerates from the ashes of its predecessor

Odoacer – Germanic king who deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire

Ravenna – Capital of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476

Alexander – This man’s death is often referred to as the start of the Hellenistic era

Stoicism – a school of philosophy, famously followed by Emperor Marcus Aurelius, which believed the universe was continually recreated