Vocabulary
Prophetic deity
Oracle
King of the Olympian gods
Zeus
Home of the gods
Mount Olympus
man who survived the flood
Deucalion
"Cast behind you the bones of your mother!"
Parnassus oracle
Deep crack
Cleft
God of the ocean
Poseidon
Giants who aided the first king of the gods
Titans
only mortal among the three Gorgons
Medusa
"Building is better than killing."
Cadmus
a drinking vessel with stem and base
goblet
god of war
Ares
watchdog of the underworld
Cerberus
cut off the monster's head
Perseus
"See! I have brought you that which you desired."
Perseus
ring of iron to be pitched at a stake
quoit
god of fire
Hephaestus
helpers of the goddess of grains/fruit/flowers
nymphs
stole fire from the gods and gave it to man
Prometheus
"What had been fated came to pass"
Greek saying
blacksmith's furnace
forge
goddess of the moon and the hunt
river around the underworld
Styx
wife of Perseus
Andromeda
"Alas!" she said, "I have been offered as a sacrifice to Poseidon."
Andromeda