Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

Vocabulary

Mythological Creatures

Mythology/Mythological

• Noun: a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition

• the study of myths

• Adjective: relating to, based on, or appearing in myths or mythology

Minotaur

• a bull-headed monster born to Queen Pasiphae of Krete after she had coupled with a bull

Medusa

• a monster generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair

• Medusa's face can turn anyone to stone

The Furies

• A trio of sisters who hang out and guard Hades

• One of the furies poses as Percy’s math teacher

Chimera

• He is part fire-breathing lion and part goat, with a diamond back rattlesnake for a tail

Echidna

• a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave

Cerberus

• He's a ginormous doggy with three heads.

• His job is to sniff out the living who might be trying to sneak into the Underworld.

Oracle

• The Oracle can see into the future and can offer prophecies, or predictions.

• She lives in the attic in a decaying mummy's mouth and her prophecies take the form of a magical green mist.

• While she does give valuable insight into the future, she also kind of speaks in riddles, making it hard to really know what she means.

Naiads

• A naiad is a kind of nymph that lives in bodies of fresh-water.

• They are beautiful lady-creatures.

Centaurs

• a centaur, or half-man, half-horse

• They tend to be really wild and even violent

Satyrs• Satyrs are half-man, half-

other creature (not always half-goat).

• They serve Pan, the God of Wild Places, and make it their life's work to find him

• Satyrs can speak to animals, and they have deep respect for nature and everything in it

• You could think of them as the greatest environmentalists ever to live

Wood Nymphs

• Beautiful lady creatures who live in the woods. Literally, they live in the trees.

Cyclopes

• The Cyclopes are giants who are really good at building and making stuff.

• They live under the ocean.