For each question, make sure you list BOTH the way the action was portrayed in the book AND the way it was portrayed in the movie.

  1. According to Greek legend, the hero Perseus was a son of Zeus. A model hero,
    Perseus killed the mortal gorgon, Medusa, through the assistance of Hermes;
    punished the giant Atlas by transforming him into a mountain, and rescued
    Andromeda, his future wife, from a monster.What part of the Perseus story did we not read? What part does Clash of the Titans not dramatize?
  2. In Greek myth, Thetis was a nereid or sea-nymph who rescued the lamed Hephæstus and looked after him for nine years while he recuperated from his ejection from Mount Olympos. Because her son was destined to be greater than his father, Zeus (who had been in love with her) married Thetis off to Peleus, King of Phthia; their son was Achilles. What role does Thetis play in Clash of the Titans?
  1. In Clash of the Titans, Calibos has committed what crime that has angered Zeus?
  2. What is Hera's reason for being jealous of Danæ?
  3. What does Hera do to Perseus?
  4. With specific reference in Clash of the Titans explain how Zeus and Hera make changes in mortals' lives.
  5. Who is Ammon? What role does he play in the movie? The book?
  6. What does Zeus order the goddesses to make Perseus for his protection? How did this happen in the book?
  7. What special power does the helmet of Perseus confer upon its wearer?
  8. What bird is associated with the goddess Athena? How is this depicted in the movie? The book?
  9. What special weapon does Perseus use to defeat the monster that threatens Andromeda? How does he come by it?
  10. Summarize Danae’s part in the Perseus myth. Give three aspects of the Danæ legend that the film has altered.
  1. As a young man at Corinth, Bellerophon aspired to break in the immortal winged horse Pegasus, sprung from the blood which had fallen from Medusa's severed neck when she was slain by Perseus. As she was pregnant by the sea-god, Poseidon, it was said that the steed owed its paternity to that god; certainly its name suggests such an origin, for the Greek pege means a spring of water; thereare at least two springs in Greece that are attributed to the stamp of that horse's hoof. How has the Pegasus legend been utilized in the film?
  2. How are the Gorgons described in the book? In what three points does the movie's version of the gorgonMedusa differ?