| A | B |
|---|
| Perseus | Greek hero who killed the Gorgon Medusa |
| Zeus/Jupiter | Perseus' father |
| Danae | Perseus' mother by Jupiter in the form of a golden rain shower |
| Acrisius | Father of Danae, who tried to prevent her from having a baby, b/c it would come to kill him. |
| Argos | The city where Acrisius was king and from which he sent out his daughter Danae with her baby in a trunk upon the sea |
| Dictys | The king fisherman who helped Perseus and Danae when they washed ashore in their trunk |
| Polydectes | Dictys brother who takes the thrown and sends away Perseus in order to marry Danae, Perseus' mother |
| Gorgons | Monstrous sisters with snakes for hair, tusks like boars and lolling tongues. The only mortal one of the three was Medusa. |
| Medusa | She had the power of turning to stone whomsoever she gazed upon. Perseus killed her |
| Graeae (Gray Women) | Two (or three) sisters, hags with but one eye and one tooth between them. They told Perseus how to find the Hyperboreans |
| Hyperboreans | Nymphs of the north who gave Perseus his winged sandals, magic bag, and cap of invisibility |
| Cassiopeia | mother of Andromeda who claimed that she and her daughter Andromeda were more beautiful than the sea-nymphs, the Nereid |
| Andromeda | Perseus saved her from Poseidon's serpent; she was tied to a rocky crag |
| aegis | armored breastplate, Athena's had Medusa's head on it |
| Seriphus | The island where Perseus and Danae wash up on and where found by Dictys |
