Perseus 4/4 (N2)

On his way back home, Perseus saw Princess Andromeda. Princess Andromeda was the daughter of the rulers of Ethiopia, King Cepheus and his wife, Queen Cassiopeia. The people of Ethiopia were told that a sea monster would come to destroy their town and people if they didn’t sacrifice their Princess, Princess Andromeda. The Princess was chained to her rock, forcibly because of her townspeople.

This sea monster was going to come to Ethiopia because of what Queen Cassiopeia, the ruler of Eithopia and mother of the Princess, said about her daughter. The Queen exclaimed that Princess Andromeda was far more beautiful than that of the Nereids. 

The Nereids are the sea nymphs. There are fifty of them. The Nerieds are the daughters of Nereus and Dorus and the sisters to Nerites. They are often seen in instances with Poseidon. They are known for helping lost sailors and fighting treacherous storms that affect the sea and boats. 

When Perseus saw the Princess Andromeda, he fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. He would agree to save her if he could marry her. He asked King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia if he could marry her, and they quickly respond saying yes, because the last thing they wanted was their daughter’s death.

Perseus kills the sea monster by wearing Hade’s helmet of invisibility, attacking it, and killing it with his sword. He then frees Princess Andromeda.

Before the people of Ethiopia were told about the sea monster coming, Princess Andromeda was going to marry her uncle, her father’s brother, Phineus. When Perseus brings Princess Andromeda back to Ethiopia to get married, Phineus tries to reclaim the Princess as his wife. Perseus and Phineus fight about it, and it ends in Phineus being turned into stone, and Perseus marries Andromeda. 

Perseus returned to King Polydectes and turned him into stone and declared Dictys king and freed his mother. He also returned all of the gifts that were given to him from the gods. 

Perseus wanted to meet his grandfather, Acrisius, to tell him that he wouldn’t kill him. His grandfather fled to Larissa to prevent the meeting. Perseus on his way to Argos, stopped in Larissa to participate in the athletic competition. 

Perseus threw a discus and because of the gods, it swerved and hit Acrisius in the head, killing him, and fulfilling his prophesy.  

Perseus 3/4 (N1)

When Perseus finds the gorgon, Medusa, see is asleep. This way, Perseus easily kills her with his sickle sword, given to him by the nymphs. He decapitated Medusa, and put her head into the leather bag to prevent him from looking into her eyes and turning into stone.  In movies and other interpretations of Greek myth, it shows/tells that there was a battle between Medusa and Perseus. In those versions, Perseus uses his shield to be able to kill the gorgon. 

It is believed that when Perseus slays Medusa, a Pegasus flies out of her blood. A Pegasus is a mythical creature. It is a winged horse and Athena tells Perseus that it is the offspring of Medusa and the sea god, Poseidon. 

After Medusa’s killing, Perseus tells the gods, Athena and Hermes, that he can return home along. He tells them to wait for him at the island of Seriphus. Perseus eventually gets tired and wants to rest. He lands (he was flying on winged sandals) by Atlas, the Titan that was punished by Zeus and forced to hold up the sky.  Perseus asked Atlas if he could stay and rest in the garden, but Atlas refused. This was because before Perseus arrived, Atlas received of prophecy that foretold that a son of Zeus would come and steal his golden apples that his daughter protects. He kept the apples safe by creating enormous mountains and having a one hundred headed dragon guard it. 

Atlas refused to let him stay because he feared for the theft of his golden apples. Perseus then took Medusa’s head out of the leather bag where it was stored, and showed it to Atlas. When their eyes met, Atlas, predictably, turned to stone. This freed Atlas of his eternal punishment of holding up the sky, and allowed Perseus to stay and rest in the garden.

Perseus 2/4 (M2)

Medusa bragged that she was prettier than Athena, and this angers Athena. When Poseidon rapes Medusa, she prays to the virgin goddess, Athena, for salvation, but Athena just gets angry and turns her into a Gorgon. There are three Gorgons total, and Medusa is the only mortal one. Her hair is of snakes, she has tusks like a wild boar, golden wings, bronze hands, and whenever anyone or anything looks at her, they turn into stone. 

Perseus is helped on his trip by Athena and Hermes. He doesn’t know this at first, but he finds out later in his adventure. Athena helps him by telling him where the sisters of the Gorgons are. He needs to know where they are so he can talk to them and ask them about the location of Medusa. The sisters only had one tooth and one eye in between them. When they wouldn’t tell Perseus where Medusa was, the demigod stole the eye when it was in the middle of being traded between the sisters. This way they had to tell him where the lair of Medusa was, and they did. There are different versions of the myth. Some tell that Medusa’s lair is in the underworld, when in other versions they say that Medusa’s lair is on a deserted island. 

There were nymphs that also helped Perseus out on his journey. They gave him a leather bag, winged sandals, and Hades’ helmet of invisibility. Hermes helped him understand how to use the winged sandals, what to use the bag for, and gave him a sickle-shaped sword that he would later kill the Gorgon, Medusa, with. Athena also gave him the advice to polish his bronze shield so he could look into his shield to kill Medusa. 

Perseus and the helpful gods, Hermes and Athena, all traveled across the oceans to where the Gorgons lived.  

Perseus 1/4 (M1)

Perseus, in Greek myth, was a demigod. This means that he was half divine and half mortal. Perseus was the son of Zeus and his mother was a mortal, Danae. Danae’s father was King Acrisius, the ruler of Argos. King Acrisius wanted a son to be the heir to his throne, so he went to the oracle to find out if he would have a son. The oracle told him of prophesy that told King Acrisius that he would not have a son, but his daughter would. He is also told that his grandson would kill him. Because of prophesy, King Acrisius imprisons Danae in a bronze chamber. Zeus visited her as a golden shower and impregnates her with her son, Perseus. After Danae gives birth to Perseus, Acrisius had his daughter and his grandson put in a chest and sent out to sea. King Acrisius thought he could drown them. In Greek mythology, it was believed that if someone didn’t directly kill someone else that it was perfectly legal. The way King Acrisius disposed of his family would have been viewed as okay.  Zeus, showing compassion for Danae and his son, takes care of his family as they are put in a chest and makes sure that they don’t drown, like King Acrisius wanted them to. 

Perseus and Danae eventually were washed onto shore and were rescued by Dictys. Dictys is the brother of the King of Seriphus, Polydectes. Dictys takes care of both of them until Perseus grows up. King Polydectes then wanted to marry Danae, but she didn’t want to. When people are giving Polydectes gifts, Perseus doesn’t have anything, but arrogantly and kiddingly he says that he’ll get the head of Medusa as a gift. 

Medusa was once a beautiful blonde girl and she was also arrogant like Perseus.

King Midas (L2)

King Midas of Greece was given the choice of any kind of wish from the wine god, Dionysus. King Midas reunited Dionysus with his friend Seilenus and because of this Dionysus would grant any of the king’s wishes. Midas, being extremely self-centered and greedy, wished for everything that he touched would be turned to gold. Dionysus granted his wish. King Midas touched everything around him. He grabbed a piece of corn and every single individual kernel turned into gold. King Midas was ecstatic. He didn’t think any bad thing would result because of this, until he began to eat. This is where King Midas faced his dilemma. When he put any food into his mouth, it would turn into gold. This happened when tried to drink anything too. He was told by a god that to get rid of his wish he would have to go to a river and wash the gold away. Midas eventually gets rid of his gift. This explains why there are gold flecks in the river in which King Midas removed himself of his gift. After this incident, King Midas listened to music by Pan, a half man half goat god of the wild, and the god of music, Apollo. King Midas stupidly tells the god that he thinks Pan is better and he is punished by the musical god. He is given outrageously large ears for his punishment. This myth explained how whispering reeds came to be and how there came to be gold flecks in the river where King Midas bathed.

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