Heroes of Olympus Test Flashcards
Persia’s main task
slay medusa
Describe Medusa
- serpents for hair
- power to turn men to stone with her eyes
weapons given to Perseus
- shield of Minerva
- knife of Mercury
- winged shoes of Mercury
- helmet of pluto
- pouch
what happens when Perseus visits cave of 3 sisters?
- stole an eye and tooth
- wont give back until they give him his stuff(pouch, helmet, winged shoes)
Perseus defeats Medusa by …
uses shield of Minerva to make medusa see herself and he beheaded her with the knife of mercury
medusa’s death =
pegasus
Andromeda captive because
used as a sacrifice to the sea monsters
Perseus rescues Andromeda by
knife of mercury o the sea monster
Perseus reward for saving andromeda
Bride
Wedding party of Perseus
attacked, all suitors turned to stone by Medusa head
Parents Hercules
Zeus and human mother = demigod
tasks of hercules
12
name of tasks
12 labors
Juno jelouse of hercules because
angry about Zeus’s affair
Juno’s revenge on hercules
- 12 labors
- insanity spell made him kill all his family
- 2 serpents when he was a baby
who overseas hercules punishment
cousin-King Eurytheus
All hercules 12 labors
- slay nemean lion
- kill water serpent
- capture arcadian stag
- slay deadly boar
- clean arcadian stables houses 300 oxen
- fight man-eating birds
- capture cretan bull
- capture man-eating horses of Diomedes
- get girdle of hippolyta (amazon queen)
- slay oxen of ceryon
- bring golden apples
- capture cerberus, guardian underworld
What happens when hercules completed 12 impossible tasks
made immortal and becomes a constellation that forever circles the sky.
what does theseus volunteer to do?
himself to be sacrificed to crete
turned loose in labyrinth
what does ariadne do?
betrays king minos (father) to help Theseus. gives him ball of thread and sword
what does theseus use the sword for and ball of thread
kill the minotaur
find his way out of the maze
what does theseus do to ariadne
sail away and then abandoned her on the island
what does theseus forget to do? what was result?
forgets to change sails from back to white. Father kills himself.
jasons main task
find the golden fleece
what was masons ship called
argo
what was Jason’s challenges he had to face
fight harpies
safely through the crashing rocks
what does medea do to help jason
uses magic to make dragon sleep, then jason can get golden fleece
what happens after jasons journey with medea
they get married and have kids
how is jason killed
on argo then a rotted beam that falls on him
prophecy of oedipus
marry his mother and kill his father and bring misery to his native land
when parents learn oedipus prophecy what do they do
abandon him in woods, shepherd helps him.
oedipus adopted by
polyps king of corinth
how does oedipus kill his real father
king laius, argument on road
oedipus solves what? what happens after
sphinx riddle
gets to marry queen jocasta, real mother
what does queen jocasta do when learns her husband is her son
commits suicide
what happens to oedipus when he finds out everything
lives a life of misery
pokes his own eyes out with sticks
wanders aimlessly
