| ACHILLES | Greek hero, son of Peleus and Thetis (8) |
| HERCULES | Greek hero, son of Zeus and Alcmene (8) |
| HERACLES | Greek hero, son of Zeus and Alcmene, famed for his strength (8) |
| AJAX | Mythological Greek hero, son of king Telamon and Periboea (4) |
| SEANYMPH | (In Greek mythology) Thetis or the other daughters of Nereus (3,5) |
| AEACIDES | Patronymic for Peleus, used in the Aeneid also for Achilles and Pyrrhus |
| PELIDES | Achilles, son of Peleus, a masculine patronym |
| AENEAS | Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Aphrodite (6) |
| ILIAD | It chronicles "the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles" |
| NEREIDS | Amphitrite and Thetis, e.g. |
| SEA | Domain of Thetis, in Greek myth |
| ONSHORE | Towards the land of the unsettled hero son (7) |
| THETIS | In Greek mythology, the mother of Achilles by Peleus (6) |
| TELEMACHUS | Sleuth came round with hero's son (10) |
| THESEUS | Hero's son you included with our side |
| MARE | Per ____ delphini et Nereides et Thetis natant |
| STYX | Thetis bathed Achilles in it, in myth |
| ODYSSEUS | Mythological Greek hero who devised the stratagem whereby he and a band of warriors were able to sneak through the gates of Troy in a wooden horse (8) |
| MELEAGER | Mythical Greek hero noted as a member of the Argonauts and the slayer of the Calydonian boar (8) |
| BRINDISI | Port city in the Apulia region of SE Italy noted for its Y-shaped harbour; according to some legends, founded by the mythical Greek hero Diomedes (8) |