CLC 106 FENNO LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Polydectes ("Receiver of Many") - ✔✔-King of Seriphos
- Brother of Dictys
- was in love with Danae
- he sent Perseus away to get the head of the Gorgon Medusa
- When Perseus returned with her head he learned Polydectes was abusing Danae
- Perseus turned him to stone with medusa's head
✔✔Gorgon/ Medusa - ✔✔- Snake hair
- curled wings
- crazy eyes
- lolling tongue
- Athena gave Perseus her shield as a mirror to kill Medusa
✔✔Perseus killing Medusa - ✔✔- nymphs
- winged sandals
- Hat of invisibility
- Harpe (Type of sword)
- pouch called Kibisis
- Athena- helmet, shield, spear, medusa's head attached to her aegis (her shoulder)
- Hermes holding a wand
✔✔Death of Medusa/ her children - ✔✔- Pegasus
- Chrysaor ("Golden Sword")
✔✔Danae and "The Girl's Tragedy" - ✔✔- Her story fits the folktale pattern of the girl's
tragedy in mythology
- Prohibition- her father prohibits her from seeing any men
- seclusion- father hides her in a bronze chamber
- violation- Zeus still gets her pregnant
- Punishment- she is thrown in a box in the ocean
- Salvation- the fisherman Dictys ("netman") saves her
✔✔Danae and "The Death of the Maiden" - ✔✔- tomb-like imprisonment
- casket-like chest
- crossing of water before arriving at the land of King "Receiver of many" (Hades is also
know for the name "Receiver of many")
✔✔Perseus and "The Boy's Quest" - ✔✔- another common folktale pattern in mythology
- The hero has a supernatural conception or birth
- as an infant he is threatened
- He is miraculously saved and raised in the wild by animals or simple folk
, - he must prove his manhood by performing an impossible task
- with divine or magical help he succeeds in his quest
- he returns, his identity is recognized, he takes his place in society
✔✔Perseus and Andromeda - ✔✔On his way home from beheading Medusa (with the
help of Athena and Hermes' gifts), Perseus spots Andromeda chained to a rock awaiting
a gruesome death by a sea monster. Perseus rescues Andromeda and is rewarded with
her hand in marriage.
✔✔Cepheus and Cassiopea (from Ethiopia or Joppa in Syria) - ✔✔parents of
Andromeda
✔✔Nereids - ✔✔Nymphs of the sea
✔✔Cetus - ✔✔- the sea monster Perseus saves Andromeda from
- it looks like a hog
✔✔Uncle Phineus - ✔✔- Andromeda was supposed to marry Phineus but she married
Perseus instead
- the men fought each other and Perseus won by turning Phineus to stone
✔✔Perses - ✔✔-son of Perseus and Andromeda
- considered the ancestor of the Persians
✔✔Perseus returns to Argos - ✔✔- Argos is where he is originally from
- accidentally kills his grandfather (like the prophecy says)
- rules Tiryns (same place where Heracles performed his 12 labors)
- founds Mycenae
✔✔Catasterism - ✔✔- Happened to Perseus
-The transformation of a hero, after death, into a star or constellation
✔✔Heracles - ✔✔- Latin- Hercules
- Mother was Alcmene (Grand daughter to Perseus)
-mortal son of Zeus, strong and brave but lacks self-control, rises to Olympus after
death
✔✔"Amphitryon" the play - ✔✔- written by Plautus
- The play is about Amphitryon's jealous reaction to Alcmena's (his wife) seduction by
Zeus
- it ends with the birth of Hercules
✔✔Hera and Heracles - ✔✔- Hera postpones his birth
-Hera sends 2 serpents to his crib to kill him but he kills the snakes instead
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Polydectes ("Receiver of Many") - ✔✔-King of Seriphos
- Brother of Dictys
- was in love with Danae
- he sent Perseus away to get the head of the Gorgon Medusa
- When Perseus returned with her head he learned Polydectes was abusing Danae
- Perseus turned him to stone with medusa's head
✔✔Gorgon/ Medusa - ✔✔- Snake hair
- curled wings
- crazy eyes
- lolling tongue
- Athena gave Perseus her shield as a mirror to kill Medusa
✔✔Perseus killing Medusa - ✔✔- nymphs
- winged sandals
- Hat of invisibility
- Harpe (Type of sword)
- pouch called Kibisis
- Athena- helmet, shield, spear, medusa's head attached to her aegis (her shoulder)
- Hermes holding a wand
✔✔Death of Medusa/ her children - ✔✔- Pegasus
- Chrysaor ("Golden Sword")
✔✔Danae and "The Girl's Tragedy" - ✔✔- Her story fits the folktale pattern of the girl's
tragedy in mythology
- Prohibition- her father prohibits her from seeing any men
- seclusion- father hides her in a bronze chamber
- violation- Zeus still gets her pregnant
- Punishment- she is thrown in a box in the ocean
- Salvation- the fisherman Dictys ("netman") saves her
✔✔Danae and "The Death of the Maiden" - ✔✔- tomb-like imprisonment
- casket-like chest
- crossing of water before arriving at the land of King "Receiver of many" (Hades is also
know for the name "Receiver of many")
✔✔Perseus and "The Boy's Quest" - ✔✔- another common folktale pattern in mythology
- The hero has a supernatural conception or birth
- as an infant he is threatened
- He is miraculously saved and raised in the wild by animals or simple folk
, - he must prove his manhood by performing an impossible task
- with divine or magical help he succeeds in his quest
- he returns, his identity is recognized, he takes his place in society
✔✔Perseus and Andromeda - ✔✔On his way home from beheading Medusa (with the
help of Athena and Hermes' gifts), Perseus spots Andromeda chained to a rock awaiting
a gruesome death by a sea monster. Perseus rescues Andromeda and is rewarded with
her hand in marriage.
✔✔Cepheus and Cassiopea (from Ethiopia or Joppa in Syria) - ✔✔parents of
Andromeda
✔✔Nereids - ✔✔Nymphs of the sea
✔✔Cetus - ✔✔- the sea monster Perseus saves Andromeda from
- it looks like a hog
✔✔Uncle Phineus - ✔✔- Andromeda was supposed to marry Phineus but she married
Perseus instead
- the men fought each other and Perseus won by turning Phineus to stone
✔✔Perses - ✔✔-son of Perseus and Andromeda
- considered the ancestor of the Persians
✔✔Perseus returns to Argos - ✔✔- Argos is where he is originally from
- accidentally kills his grandfather (like the prophecy says)
- rules Tiryns (same place where Heracles performed his 12 labors)
- founds Mycenae
✔✔Catasterism - ✔✔- Happened to Perseus
-The transformation of a hero, after death, into a star or constellation
✔✔Heracles - ✔✔- Latin- Hercules
- Mother was Alcmene (Grand daughter to Perseus)
-mortal son of Zeus, strong and brave but lacks self-control, rises to Olympus after
death
✔✔"Amphitryon" the play - ✔✔- written by Plautus
- The play is about Amphitryon's jealous reaction to Alcmena's (his wife) seduction by
Zeus
- it ends with the birth of Hercules
✔✔Hera and Heracles - ✔✔- Hera postpones his birth
-Hera sends 2 serpents to his crib to kill him but he kills the snakes instead
