Perseus Flashcards
(155 cards)
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Who was the mother of Perseus?
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Danae
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Who was the father of Danae?
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Acrisius
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Who was the grandfather of Persues?
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Acrisius
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Where was Acrisius the king?
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Argos
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What had an oracle told Acrisius?
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That a son of danae would kill him
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How had Zeus visited Danae?
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A shower of gold
7
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Where did the chest containing zeus and danae float?
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To seriphus
8
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What fischerman…
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Dictys or glaucus
8
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What was another name of Perseus?
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Eurymedon
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Who did Polydectes want to marry?
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Danae
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Who did Polydectes announce he would sue for the hand of?
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Hippodameia
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Who was the daughter of Oenomaus, the pisan king?
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Hippodameia
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What did Polydectes require of his subjects to provide so he could win his bride?
A
horses
13
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Who rashly promised a king to bring him…
A
Perseus
14
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Who appeared to Perseus and explained how he could go about killing medusa?
A
Athena
15
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Who traveled to a libyan mountain where atlas stood…
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Perseus
16
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What gray haired women…
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The graeae
17
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What did the graeae hare between them?
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one tooth and one eye
18
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Who were the graeae the sister of?
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The gorgons
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What did Perseus need the graeae to tell him?
A
the location of the weapons athena told him he would need
20
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Who took the eye…
A
Perseus
21
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What lake did Perseus fling the eye of the graeae into?
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Lake Tritonis
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What did the nymphs give Perseus?
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kibisis, winged sandals and the cap of darkness
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Who appeared and gave Perseus the last weapon he needed to fight the gorgons?
A
Hermes
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What did Perseus use to see?
his shield
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Who with hands of brass and wings of gold...
Gorgons
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What were the names of the gorgons?
Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa
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Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa
gorgons
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Who wielded a sword of adamant?
Perseus
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Where did Perseus stop for a night after killing Medsua?
the land of the hesperides
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Who ruled the land of the hesperides?
atlas
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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
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Who told Atlas that one day a son of zeus would steal his most prized possession, the golden apples?
Themis
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Themis told whom that one day a son of zeus would steal his most prized possession, the golden apples?
Atlas
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What was Atlas's most prized possession?
the golden apples
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Who did Atlas think was going to take his golden apples?
perseus
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What did Perseus do to Atlas?
He held up medusa's head, turning Atlas into a mountain
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Who was turned into a mountain?
Atlas
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turned into a mountain...
Atlas
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On his way home to Seriphos, Perseus flew over egypt and stopped where?
Chemmis
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What ancestors did Perseus have in Chemmis?
Danaus and Lynceus
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Who visited the home of his ancestors Danaus and Lynceus?
Perseus
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Where was the home of Danaus and Lynceus?
Chemmis
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After stopping at Chemmis, where did Perseus go next?
Ethiopia
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Who was the king of Ethiopia whom Perseus visited?
Cepheus
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Who were Perseus and Cepheus both descended from?
Danaus
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Who was the wife of Cepheus?
Cassiopeia
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Who was the husband of Cassiopeia?
Cepheus
48
Who was so vain that she boasted of being more beautiful than the nereids?
Cassiopeia
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Who did the nereids complain to about cassiopeia's boasting?
Poseidon or Ammon
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Who sent a sea monster to ravage Ethiopia?
Ammon
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The oracle of what god told Cepheus that he would have to sacrifice Andromeda?
Ammon
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What daughter of Cepheus...
Andromeda
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What daughter of Cassiopeia...
Andromeda
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Who were the parents of Andromeda?
Cepheus and Cassiopeia
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Who was chained naked to a rocky cliff as an offering?
Andromeda
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What was Perseus promised in exchange for saving Andromeda?
Andromeda's hand in marrige and a kingdom
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Who had Cepheus already promised Andromeda's hand to before Perseus?
Phineus
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What brother of Cepheus...
Phineus
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What brother of Phineus..
Cepheus
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Who did Perseus turn to stone in ethiopia?
Phineus
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What child did Andromeda bore to Perseus?
Perses
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Who was left to inherit the throne after Cepheus?
Perses
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Who does Herodotus claim the Persians got their name from?
Perses (son of Andromeda and Perseus)
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Who is said to spend most of the year lying on her back with her feet in the air?
Cassiopeia
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Who pursued Danae?
Polydectes
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Who did Perseus leave Andromeda with once he returned to Seriphos?
Danae and dictys
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Who did Perseus turn to stone on Seriphos?
Polydectes
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Polydectes, Atlas, and Phineus all shared what fate?
turned to stone by Perseus
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Who did Perseus give his weapons to after his quest?
Hermes
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After Perseus gave him the weapons, who returned them to the nymphs?
Hermes
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Who did Perseus give Medusa's head to?
Athena
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What was on Aegis?
medusa's head
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Who did Perseus leave on the throne of Seriphus?
Dictys
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Where did Acrisius flee to, to escape perseus?
Larissa
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Where did Acrisius die?
Larissa
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What king was holding funeral games at Larissa?
King Teutamides
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Where did Perseus bury Acrisius?
The Sanctuary of Athena
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Whose temple was Perseus said to have been raised in?
Athena's
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What hero was raised in the temple of Athena?
Perseus
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Who traded the throne of Argos for Tiryns?
Perseus
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Who traded Tiryns with Perseus for Argos?
Megapenthes
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Who did Megapenthes trade Tiryns with for Argos?
Perseus
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Name the daughter of Perseus and Andromeda
Gorgophone
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Name the six sons of Perseus and Andromeda
Perses, Alcaeus, mestor, electryon, sthenelus, and heleius
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Who did Perseus fight from the Aegean islands who came to argos with dionysus?
The women of the sea
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Where did Dionysus bury Ariadne?
Argos
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Who came to Argos with Dionysus and fought Perseus?
The women of the sea
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Who went with the women of the sea to argos?
Dionysus
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What man, born in a brazen cell...
Perseus
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Zeus saw to it that a chest containing...
Perseus and Danae
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What man, raised by the name of Eurymedon...
Perseus
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What lustful brother of Dictys...
Polydectes
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What man, because he did not dare oppose Perseus...
Polydectes
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What daughter of the Pisan king Oenomaus...
Hippodameia
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Who falsely announced his intention to sue for the hand...
Polydectes
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What man, who required all his subjects to contribute horses...
Polydectes
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What man, because he had no horses, rashly promised...
Perseus
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Who, following the directions of Athena, traveled the Libyan mountain on which...
Perseus
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Who, traveling to the Libyan mountain on which Atlas stood, found the...
Perseus
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What two hags, who had been grey-haired since birth...
Graeae
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Knowing that, as sisters of the Gorgons, they would not willingly aid him...
Perseus / Graeae
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What Lake, which Perseus may have flung the eye of the Graeae into...
Tritonis
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A large wallet, a pair of winged sandals, and a cap of darkness...
probably Perseus / Athena
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A sword, sickle, or adamant, were the possible versions of the gift...
Hermes / Perseus
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Because Hermes found the youth attractive...
Perseus
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What hideous monsters, with hands of brass and wings of gold...
Gorgons
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Huge tongues lolled from their mouths between swine’s tusks...
Gorgons
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Who, unable to pursue an invisible attacker, returned to their lair to mourn...
Gorgons
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According to Ovid, who stopped for a night in the land of the Hesperides, ruled...
Perseus
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Who, wanted that a son of Zeus would one day steal his most precious possession...
Atlas
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Who, angered at the rudeness of Atlas, but no match for the giant’s strength...
Perseus
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Who, transformed into a mountain which grew until its peak was lost in the clouds...
Atlas
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The people of Chemmis were, in Herodotus’s day...
Perseus
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Who, stopping in Chemis to visit the home of his ancestors...
Perseus
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Whose land, which may have been an Ethiopian colony at Joppa...
Cepheus
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Who, like Perseus himself, was descended from Danaus’s father...
Cepheus
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What woman, so vain that she had boasted of being more beautiful than the Nereids...
Cassiopeia
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What horned Libyan god, who sent...
Ammon
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What group, who once complained either to Poseidon or the horned...
Nerieds
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What man, who learned from Ammon’s famous oracle...
Cepheus
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Who, glimpsing the tiny figure of his future wife far below...
Perseus
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Who, pausing only long enough to strike a bargain with Cepheus...
Perseus
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The people of Joppa claim that a spring runs red...
Perseus
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Who, in his haste to save his daughter, failed to mention that he had already promised...
Cepheus
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Who slipped out the door at the arrival of his brother Phineus...
Cepheus
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Who, shouting to his allies to shield their eyes...
Perseus
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What girl, who loyally resisted her parents’ efforts to persuade her to stay with them, returned to Seriphos...
Andromeda
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Who, leaving his wife and mother with the fisherman who...
Perseus
129
Who, announcing to an unbelieving company that he had brought the promised...
Perseus
130
What man, from whom Herodotus claims the Persians derive their name...
Perses
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What woman, who lays on her back with her feet in the air...
Cassiopeia
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What woman, who took shelter at the altars of the gods along with Dictys...
Danae
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Leaving the man who had raised him on the throne of Seriphos...
Perseus
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Who, in spite of the cruel treatment he and Danae had received from Acrisius...
Perseus
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Who, hearing of Perseus’s exploits...
Acrisius
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Who, fleeing to the town of Larisa...
Acrisius
137
What king, holding funeral games for his father at Larisa...
Teutamides
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Who, proud of his skill at discus-throwing...
Perseus
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What man, sometimes said to have invented the sport of discus-throwing...
Perseus
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A blow to either the head or the foot...
Acrisius
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What man, buried either in the sanctuary of Athena at Argos or outside...
Acrisius
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What man, who Ovid claims was driven from his capital by his brother...
Proetus
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What man, who Perseus may have turned to stone for driving his brother...
Proetus
144
Who avenged his father, Proetus...
Megapenthes
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What son of Proetus...
Megapenthes
146
What women, often depicted as riding on the backs of Hippocampi...
Haliae
147
What man, who, according to Hyginus, was a benevolent king who married Danae…
Polydectes
148
Who, ashamed to inherit the throne from the man whom he had killed...
Perseus
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Who traded kingdoms...
Megapenthes / Perseus
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What ruler of Tiryns, who established the city of Mycenae and fortified Midea...
Perseus
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Heleius, Mestor, Alcaeus...
Perseus
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What strange band from the Aegean Islands...
Haliae
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What group of women, who Perseus once fought against...
Haliae
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The Argives claim that Dionysus once buried what...
Ariadne
