Vocabulary Words
Word that means “having a right to”
Entitled
son of Zeus and Diane
Perseus
ugliest sister with snake hair
Medusa
event begun by a chariot race
Olympic games
Founder of the Olympic Games
Pelops
Word that means: without pity or compassion
Ruthless
Parents of Adromeda
Cepheus and Cassiopeia
Offspring of Echidna couldn’t be hurt by weapons
Nemean lion
Perseus’ native city and later his kingdom
Argos
King with the golden touch
King Midas
Word that means: threatening
menacing
King whose punishment was pushing boulder up mountain
Sisyphus
Three bodies; one set of legs
Geryon
Where Ladon guarded Hera’s tree
Garden of Hesperides
Daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia
Andromeda
Word that means: satisfy, extinguish
Queen of Crete
Europa
Name three parts of the Chimera
lion, goat, serpent
City of Athena that received her gift of an Olive Tree
Athens
King of Thebes, Europa’s brother
Cadmus
Word that means: to cry out loudly
bellow
Tamer of horses
Bellerophon
100 headed dragon
Ladon
Home of dangerous birds with brass feathers
Stymphalian Lake
Queen of Thebes, daughter of Aphrodite
Harmonia