First things first

Take a break from your textbooks, and try a quick game for a change! You can see Thetis taking the small Achilles to school in this picture.
School? Well, kind of. The centaur Chiron, who will act as the teacher, gives a warm welcome to his pupil – just as we welcome you! Click on the image to read short paragraphs related to each figure, then look at the questions. If you don’t know the answers right away, that’s okay! We hid the solutions in the word search puzzle below.

81 letters – six words! Did you get them all perfect?


Images: Fragments of a pottery dish showing the life of Achilles, 350–430 AD. London, British Museum (2002,1029.7; 2002,1029.3; 2002,1029.4) © The Trustees of the British Museum / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0