Perseus
Who is Perseus’s mother?
Who is Danaë?
Theseus proved his identity by retrieving these items hidden under a rock.
What are a sword and sandals?
After offending the gods, Atalanta and her husband were transformed into these animals.
What are lions?
Which goddess helped Perseus?
Who is Athena?
What do the golden apples represent?
What is temptation?
What dangerous power did Medusa have?
What is turning people to stone?
Theseus descended into the Underworld with Pirithous to attempt this reckless act.
What is kidnapping Persephone?
What hunt did Atalanta take part in?
What is the Calydonian boar hunt?
Which god gave Perseus winged sandals?
Who is Hermes?
What does the Labyrinth symbolize?
What is confusion or complexity?
Perseus used Medusa’s head to defeat this king who wanted to marry his mother.
Who is Polydectes?
What did Ariadne give Theseus to escape?
What is a thread/yarn/string?
What happened to men who lost the race?
What is they were killed?
Which goddess helped Hippomenes?
Who is Aphrodite?
Atalanta’s resistance to marriage highlight this theme.
What is autonomy (or independence)?
Who did Perseus rescue from a sea monster?
Who is Andromeda?
What specific action did King Aegeus take after seeing the black sail?
What is he jumped into the sea?
Who defeated Atalanta?
Who is Hippomenes (Melanion)?
This magical item allowed Perseus to become invisible.
What is Hades’ helmet (Helmet of Invisibility)?
What theme connects all three myths?
What is courage and consequences of choices? OR What is the hero’s journey?
How is the prophecy about his grandfather fulfilled?
What is Perseus accidentally killing him during an athletic contest with a discus?
Before facing the Minotaur, Theseus traveled to Athens killing robbers like this infamous bed-stretching villain.
Who is Procrustes?
Atalanta was abandoned as a baby and raised by this animal.
What is a bear?
Perseus received help from these three sisters who shared one eye.
Who are the Gray sisters.
What does Medusa symbolize?
What is fear or danger that paralyzes?