Heroic Characteristics in "Perseus"

brought a present for the bride, except Perseus alone. He had nothing he could offer. He was young and proud and keenly mortified. He stood prior to them all and did exactly what the King had actually hoped he would do, stated that he would provide him a present better than any there.

He would go off and kill Medusa and revive her head as his present. Nothing might have matched the King better. Nobody in his senses would have made such a proposition. Medusa was one of the Gorgons.. Which statement best describes a characteristic of a Greek hero displayed by Perseus?

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Fate willed it—or perhaps Zeus, who up to now had done little for his love and his child—that they should be discovered by a good man, a fisherman named Dictys.

He came upon the great box and broke it open and took the pitiful cargo home to his wife who was as kind as he. They had no children and they cared for Danaë and Perseus as if they were their own. This excerpt best shows that the ancient Greeks valued

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He waited beside her until the great snake came for its prey; then he cut its head off just as he had the Gorgon's. The headless body dropped back into the water; Perseus took Andromeda to her parents and asked for her hand, which they gladly gave him. Based on this excerpt, what is most likely true about ancient Greek marriage rituals?

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He announced that he was about to be married, and he called his friends together for a celebration, including Perseus in the invitation. Each guest, as was customary, brought a gift for the bride-to-be, except Perseus alone. Which aspect of Greek life does this excerpt reveal?

When Cepheus consents to give his daughter Andromeda to the sea serpent, it reflects the ancient Greek values of

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The Ethiopians were being devoured in numbers by the serpent; and, learning from the oracle that they could be freed from the pest only if Andromeda were offered up to it, they forced Cepheus, her father, to consent. When Perseus arrived the maiden was on a rocky ledge by the sea, chained there to wait for the coming of the monster.

Perseus best proves he is a hero with great fighting skills by

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This radiant personage [Hermes] told [Perseus] that before he attacked Medusa he must first be properly equipped, and that what he needed was in the possession of the nymphs of the North. To find the nymphs' abode, they must go to the Gray Women who alone could tell them the way. Which characteristics of a Greek hero are shown in this excerpt? Check all that apply.

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Fate willed it—or perhaps Zeus, who up to now had done little for his love and his child—that they should be discovered by a good man, a fisherman named Dictys. He came upon the great box and broke it open and took the pitiful cargo home to his wife who was as kind as he. They had no children and they cared for Danaë and Perseus as if they were their own. What aspect of Greek life does the excerpt show?

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Fate willed it—or perhaps Zeus, who up to now had done little for his love and his child—that they should be discovered by a good man, a fisherman named Dictys. He came upon the great box and broke it open and took the pitiful cargo home to his wife who was as kind as he. They had no children and they cared for Danaë and Perseus as if they were their own.

This excerpt best shows that the ancient Greeks valued

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He announced that he was about to be married, and he called his friends together for a celebration, including Perseus in the invitation. Each guest, as was customary, brought a gift for the bride-to-be, except Perseus alone.

Which aspect of Greek life does this excerpt reveal?

Perseus best proves he is a hero with great fighting skills by

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It happened that soon after their arrival Perseus heard that the King of Larissa, in the North, was holding a great athletic contest, and he journeyed there to take part. In the discus-throwing when his turn came and he hurled the heavy missile, it swerved and fell among the spectators. Acrisius was there on a visit to the King, and the discus struck him. The blow was fatal and he died at once.

What can be learned about Greek life from this excerpt? Check all that apply.

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The Ethiopians were being devoured in numbers by the serpent; and, learning from the oracle that they could be freed from the pest only if Andromeda were offered up to it, they forced Cepheus, her father, to consent. When Perseus arrived the maiden was on a rocky ledge by the sea, chained there to wait for the coming of the monster.

In this excerpt, readers learn that is an accepted practice in ancient Greek life.

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[Queen Cassiopeia] had boasted that she was more beautiful than the daughters of Nereus, the Sea-god. An absolutely certain way in those days to draw down on one a wretched fate was to claim superiority in anything over any deity; nevertheless people were perpetually doing so.

Which ancient Greek value did Queen Cassiopeia fail to possess?

Embarrassed when he lacks a gift for Polydectes's bride, Perseus proclaims that he will provide the best wedding gift conceivable. By doing so, Perseus's forgets to value

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Fate willed it—or perhaps Zeus, who up to now had done little for his love and his child—that they should be discovered by a good man, a fisherman named Dictys. He came upon the great box and broke it open and took the pitiful cargo home to his wife who was as kind as he. They had no children and they cared for Danaë and Perseus as if they were their own.

What aspect of Greek life does the excerpt show?

Which story event in "Perseus" best shows that the ancient Greeks valued intelligence?