Perseus Flashcards
Who was the mother of Perseus?
Danae
Who was the father of Danae?
Acrisius
Who was the grandfather of Persues?
Acrisius
Where was Acrisius the king?
Argos
What had an oracle told Acrisius?
That a son of danae would kill him
How had Zeus visited Danae?
A shower of gold
Where did the chest containing zeus and danae float?
To seriphus
What fischerman…
Dictys or glaucus
What was another name of Perseus?
Eurymedon
Who did Polydectes want to marry?
Danae
Who did Polydectes announce he would sue for the hand of?
Hippodameia
Who was the daughter of Oenomaus, the pisan king?
Hippodameia
What did Polydectes require of his subjects to provide so he could win his bride?
horses
Who rashly promised a king to bring him…
Perseus
Who appeared to Perseus and explained how he could go about killing medusa?
Athena
Who traveled to a libyan mountain where atlas stood…
Perseus
What gray haired women…
The graeae
What did the graeae hare between them?
one tooth and one eye
Who were the graeae the sister of?
The gorgons
What did Perseus need the graeae to tell him?
the location of the weapons athena told him he would need
Who took the eye…
Perseus
What lake did Perseus fling the eye of the graeae into?
Lake Tritonis
What did the nymphs give Perseus?
kibisis, winged sandals and the cap of darkness
Who appeared and gave Perseus the last weapon he needed to fight the gorgons?
Hermes
What did Perseus use to see?
his shield
Who with hands of brass and wings of gold…
Gorgons
What were the names of the gorgons?
Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa
Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa
gorgons
Who wielded a sword of adamant?
Perseus
Where did Perseus stop for a night after killing Medsua?
the land of the hesperides
Who ruled the land of the hesperides?
atlas
Why did Atlas want Perseus to leave his land?
Themis had told him that one day a son of zeus would steal his most prized possession, the golden apples
Who told Atlas that one day a son of zeus would steal his most prized possession, the golden apples?
Themis
Themis told whom that one day a son of zeus would steal his most prized possession, the golden apples?
Atlas
What was Atlas’s most prized possession?
the golden apples
Who did Atlas think was going to take his golden apples?
perseus
What did Perseus do to Atlas?
He held up medusa’s head, turning Atlas into a mountain
Who was turned into a mountain?
Atlas
turned into a mountain…
Atlas
On his way home to Seriphos, Perseus flew over egypt and stopped where?
Chemmis
What ancestors did Perseus have in Chemmis?
Danaus and Lynceus
Who visited the home of his ancestors Danaus and Lynceus?
Perseus
Where was the home of Danaus and Lynceus?
Chemmis
After stopping at Chemmis, where did Perseus go next?
Ethiopia
Who was the king of Ethiopia whom Perseus visited?
Cepheus
Who were Perseus and Cepheus both descended from?
Danaus
Who was the wife of Cepheus?
Cassiopeia
Who was the husband of Cassiopeia?
Cepheus
Who was so vain that she boasted of being more beautiful than the nereids?
Cassiopeia
Who did the nereids complain to about cassiopeia’s boasting?
Poseidon or Ammon
Who sent a sea monster to ravage Ethiopia?
Ammon
The oracle of what god told Cepheus that he would have to sacrifice Andromeda?
Ammon
What daughter of Cepheus…
Andromeda
What daughter of Cassiopeia…
Andromeda
Who were the parents of Andromeda?
Cepheus and Cassiopeia
Who was chained naked to a rocky cliff as an offering?
Andromeda
What was Perseus promised in exchange for saving Andromeda?
Andromeda’s hand in marrige and a kingdom
Who had Cepheus already promised Andromeda’s hand to before Perseus?
Phineus
What brother of Cepheus…
Phineus
What brother of Phineus..
Cepheus
Who did Perseus turn to stone in ethiopia?
Phineus
What child did Andromeda bore to Perseus?
Perses
Who was left to inherit the throne after Cepheus?
Perses
Who does Herodotus claim the Persians got their name from?
Perses (son of Andromeda and Perseus)
Who is said to spend most of the year lying on her back with her feet in the air?
Cassiopeia
Who pursued Danae?
Polydectes
Who did Perseus leave Andromeda with once he returned to Seriphos?
Danae and dictys
Who did Perseus turn to stone on Seriphos?
Polydectes
Polydectes, Atlas, and Phineus all shared what fate?
turned to stone by Perseus
Who did Perseus give his weapons to after his quest?
Hermes
After Perseus gave him the weapons, who returned them to the nymphs?
Hermes
Who did Perseus give Medusa’s head to?
Athena
What was on Aegis?
medusa’s head
Who did Perseus leave on the throne of Seriphus?
Dictys
Where did Acrisius flee to, to escape perseus?
Larissa
Where did Acrisius die?
Larissa
What king was holding funeral games at Larissa?
King Teutamides
Where did Perseus bury Acrisius?
The Sanctuary of Athena
Whose temple was Perseus said to have been raised in?
Athena’s
What hero was raised in the temple of Athena?
Perseus
Who traded the throne of Argos for Tiryns?
Perseus
Who traded Tiryns with Perseus for Argos?
Megapenthes
Who did Megapenthes trade Tiryns with for Argos?
Perseus
Name the daughter of Perseus and Andromeda
Gorgophone
Name the six sons of Perseus and Andromeda
Perses, Alcaeus, mestor, electryon, sthenelus, and heleius
Who did Perseus fight from the Aegean islands who came to argos with dionysus?
The women of the sea
Where did Dionysus bury Ariadne?
Argos
Who came to Argos with Dionysus and fought Perseus?
The women of the sea
Who went with the women of the sea to argos?
Dionysus
What man, born in a brazen cell…
Perseus
Zeus saw to it that a chest containing…
Perseus and Danae
What man, raised by the name of Eurymedon…
Perseus
What lustful brother of Dictys…
Polydectes
What man, because he did not dare oppose Perseus…
Polydectes
What daughter of the Pisan king Oenomaus…
Hippodameia
Who falsely announced his intention to sue for the hand…
Polydectes
What man, who required all his subjects to contribute horses…
Polydectes
What man, because he had no horses, rashly promised…
Perseus
Who, following the directions of Athena, traveled the Libyan mountain on which…
Perseus
Who, traveling to the Libyan mountain on which Atlas stood, found the…
Perseus
What two hags, who had been grey-haired since birth…
Graeae
Knowing that, as sisters of the Gorgons, they would not willingly aid him…
Perseus / Graeae
What Lake, which Perseus may have flung the eye of the Graeae into…
Tritonis
A large wallet, a pair of winged sandals, and a cap of darkness…
probably Perseus / Athena
A sword, sickle, or adamant, were the possible versions of the gift…
Hermes / Perseus
Because Hermes found the youth attractive…
Perseus
What hideous monsters, with hands of brass and wings of gold…
Gorgons
Huge tongues lolled from their mouths between swine’s tusks…
Gorgons
Who, unable to pursue an invisible attacker, returned to their lair to mourn…
Gorgons
According to Ovid, who stopped for a night in the land of the Hesperides, ruled…
Perseus
Who, wanted that a son of Zeus would one day steal his most precious possession…
Atlas
Who, angered at the rudeness of Atlas, but no match for the giant’s strength…
Perseus
Who, transformed into a mountain which grew until its peak was lost in the clouds…
Atlas
The people of Chemmis were, in Herodotus’s day…
Perseus
Who, stopping in Chemis to visit the home of his ancestors…
Perseus
Whose land, which may have been an Ethiopian colony at Joppa…
Cepheus
Who, like Perseus himself, was descended from Danaus’s father…
Cepheus
What woman, so vain that she had boasted of being more beautiful than the Nereids…
Cassiopeia
What horned Libyan god, who sent…
Ammon
What group, who once complained either to Poseidon or the horned…
Nerieds
What man, who learned from Ammon’s famous oracle…
Cepheus
Who, glimpsing the tiny figure of his future wife far below…
Perseus
Who, pausing only long enough to strike a bargain with Cepheus…
Perseus
The people of Joppa claim that a spring runs red…
Perseus
Who, in his haste to save his daughter, failed to mention that he had already promised…
Cepheus
Who slipped out the door at the arrival of his brother Phineus…
Cepheus
Who, shouting to his allies to shield their eyes…
Perseus
What girl, who loyally resisted her parents’ efforts to persuade her to stay with them, returned to Seriphos…
Andromeda
Who, leaving his wife and mother with the fisherman who…
Perseus
Who, announcing to an unbelieving company that he had brought the promised…
Perseus
What man, from whom Herodotus claims the Persians derive their name…
Perses
What woman, who lays on her back with her feet in the air…
Cassiopeia
What woman, who took shelter at the altars of the gods along with Dictys…
Danae
Leaving the man who had raised him on the throne of Seriphos…
Perseus
Who, in spite of the cruel treatment he and Danae had received from Acrisius…
Perseus
Who, hearing of Perseus’s exploits…
Acrisius
Who, fleeing to the town of Larisa…
Acrisius
What king, holding funeral games for his father at Larisa…
Teutamides
Who, proud of his skill at discus-throwing…
Perseus
What man, sometimes said to have invented the sport of discus-throwing…
Perseus
A blow to either the head or the foot…
Acrisius
What man, buried either in the sanctuary of Athena at Argos or outside…
Acrisius
What man, who Ovid claims was driven from his capital by his brother…
Proetus
What man, who Perseus may have turned to stone for driving his brother…
Proetus
Who avenged his father, Proetus…
Megapenthes
What son of Proetus…
Megapenthes
What women, often depicted as riding on the backs of Hippocampi…
Haliae
What man, who, according to Hyginus, was a benevolent king who married Danae…
Polydectes
Who, ashamed to inherit the throne from the man whom he had killed…
Perseus
Who traded kingdoms…
Megapenthes / Perseus
What ruler of Tiryns, who established the city of Mycenae and fortified Midea…
Perseus
Heleius, Mestor, Alcaeus…
Perseus
What strange band from the Aegean Islands…
Haliae
What group of women, who Perseus once fought against…
Haliae
The Argives claim that Dionysus once buried what…
Ariadne
