Gods/Goddesses
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Characters
Pot Luck
100
The god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
100
This is the fate that the oracle fortells to King Acrisius when he asks about his future.
What is his daughter will have a child that will kill/murder him?
100
Inner/Hollow places.
What is recesses?
100
The mythic hero and demi-god in the myth "Medusa's Head."
Who is Perseus?
100
This is what happens to people who look into the face of Medusa.
What is they are turned to stone?
200
The goddess of wisdom and war.
Who is Athena?
200
This is the reason King Polydectes sends Perseus on his dangerous adventure.
What is he hopes Perseus will die so that he can marry Danae?
200
To come down from a high place.
What is descended?
200
Perseus's Mother
Who is Danae?
200
This is what Perseus throws that leads to the death of his grandfather King Acrisius.
What is a discus?
300
The king of all the gods.
Who is Zeus?
300
This is how Perseus kills the sea monster that is about to devour Andromeda.
What is he shows Medusa's head and the monster is turned to stone?
300
Confusion
What is perplexity?
300
This is the king that cast Perseus and his mother into the sea.
Who is King Acrisius?
300
These are the three gifts the sea nymphs provide for Perseus on his adventure to kill Medusa.
What are winged sandals, a hat of darkness/invisibility, and a magic bag to carry the head of Medusa?
400
The god of prophecy(telling the future).
Who is Apollo?
400
This is what we call a character in a myth that has supernatural powers and faces a great challenge.
What is a mythic hero?
400
To hang above, float above.
What is hovered?
400
The only mortal Gorgon.
Who is Medusa?
400
In the beginning of the story,this is the first way King Acrisius tries to avoid his fate predicted by the oracle.
What is put his daughter into an underground prision?
500
This is the term used when a person has a god/goddess as a parent and a mortal (human) as the other parent.
What is a Demi-God?
500
This is the central subject of the myth "Medusa's Head", the idea of: A. love B. fate C. hope D. peace
What is fate?
500
Constant; continual
What is perpetual?
500
These are 3 sisters that share only one eye and one tooth between the 3 of them.
Who are the Phorcides?
500
All of the following ar characteristics of most Greek myths like "Medusa's Head" except: A. the pressence of gods and goddesses B. supernatural heroes C. one-dimensional characters D. completely predictable events
What is (B) one-dimensional characters?
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