| SEMELE | Depicted in an opera by Handel and a painting by Gustave Moreau, the mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus (6 |
| THESPIS | Depicted in an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, the Greek dramatic poet considered the founder of tragedy (7) |
| XERXES | Persian king, subject of an opera by Handel |
| ERATO | Mythological Greek muse of lyric and love poetry, depicted on a sarcophagus exhibited in the Louvre and a painting by Simon Vouet (5) |
| GREY | Lady Jane -; depicted in a play by Nicholas Rowe and a painting by Paul Delaroche, a queen for nine days before she was beheaded and replaced with Mary Tudor (4) |
| CALMSEA | 1869 coastal painting by Gustave Courbet, with 'The' |
| SYMBOLISM | Late 19th-century art movement whose exponents included Odilon Redon and Gustave Moreau (9) |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| DIONE | Titaness in Greek mythology said by Homer to be the mother, by Zeus, of Aphrodite (5) |
| LETO | In Greek mythology, the mother, by Zeus, of Apollo and Artemis (4) |
| DANAE | Mythical princess of the Greek city of Argos and mother, by Zeus, of the hero Perseus (5) |
| MNEMOSYNE | Goddess of memory in Greek mythology, and mother (by Zeus) of the nine Muses (9) |
| MAIA | Eldest of the seven Pleiades in Greek mythology; mother, by Zeus, of Hermes (4) |
| ALCMENE | Wife of Amphitryon and mother, by Zeus, of Heracles (7) |
| QUEENMAB | Character referred to in Mercutio's speech in Romeo and Juliet and depicted in an illustration by Arthur Rackham (5,3) |
| EROS | Depicted in an Angelica Kauffman painting and sometimes in decorative scenes on Italian wedding chests or "cassoni", the Greek god of love (4) |
| VERMEER | Artist whose oil on canvas of a lady playing a virginal shows blueand-white Delft tiles and a painting of Cupid holding a playing card (7) |
| BYROM | Poet who, in his satire of 1725, applied the names "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to the two rival composers Handel and Bononcini (5) |
| MAENAD | A female participant in the rites of Dionysus (6) |
| ACIS | Mythological shepherd whose doomed love for Galatea is described in Ovid's Metamorphoses and also a pastoral opera by Handel (4) |
