Vocabulary
Important Characters
Heroes
Places
100

calm

serene

100

mother of Achilles

Thetis

100

king of Sparta

Menelaus

100

island home of the Minotaur

Crete

200

surrender, give up

forfeit

200

turned men into animals

Circe

200

fastest runner in Greece

Atalanta

200

10 year event begun over a beautiful woman

Trojan War

300

tension due to failure to agree

discord

300

daughter of Minos; wife of Dionysus

Ariadne

300

founder of Rome

Aeneas

300

sea traveled by Jason and the Argonauts

Black Sea

400

rowdy; exuberant

boisterous

400

3 goddesses who fought over the golden apple

Hera, Athena, Aphrodite

400

the 5 great mortal heroes

Theseus, Jason, Achilles, Perseus, Hercules

400

island where Daedalus landed

Sicily

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