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The Beginning
King Acrisius wanted a son and he only had a daughter. Because of this he decided to go to Delphi to ask Apollo if he'd ever have a son, but Apollo answered him telling him no, and that his daughter would have a son who'd kill him. -
Imprisonment
King Acrisius didn't want to kill his daughter outright because knew that the Gods would be displeased with him and they would smite him. Instead he decided to seal his daughter, Danae, in a bronze box house, with only an airhole to breath, so that she could never have sex, and thus never have kids. -
Zeus's interferance
Zeus saw a young beautiful woman imprisoned so he decided to come down to her as golden rain. This impregnated Danea. She later gave birth to her son that Zeus helped her make, and she named him Perseus. -
Discovery and Casting into the ocean
Danae tried to hide her son the best she could, but there are only so many places to hide a child in an enclosed, imprisoned, bronze, house. King Acrisius discovered her son and decided to then deal with both of them. He again couldn't kill them, but that didn't mean he couldn't seal them in a chest and cast them into the ocean to let the ocean kill them. -
Analysis of myths like these
-I wonder why these people in myths like this never stopped to think that maybe, just maybe, if they were nice, then maybe bad things wouldn't happen to them. Did they have any belief in Karma? What goes around comes around? Like come on, a person like Acrisius can't really believe he's going to get away with doing what he is. -
Their Savior
Danae and her son would have died had it not been for Poseidon guiding their chest to an island. There a fisherman named Dictys found them, and after freeing them he allowed them to stay at his house. Dictys was very generous and he was even a prince. -
Deceit
Dicty's had a brother who was the king. That man was Polydectes. As time went on Peseus grew up to be a strong full grown man. Polydectes also had a crush on his mother. Polydectes being the ungrateful person who he was, didn't want to deal with Perseus if he married Danae so he made a plan to get rid of him. -
The Quest Begins
Polydectes invites Perseus to a wedding ceremony where he's supposed to bring a gift but he doesn't know that. Perseus embarrassed, makes a pledge to bring back the head of Medusa because it's what Polydectes said he wanted most in the world. -
Getting to Medusa's lair
Perseus went numerous places. He started at the temple of Delphi, which then led him to Zeus's forest. There he met Hermes and Athena. Hermes gave him an unbreakable sword and Athena gave him a mirrored shield to fend off Medusa's stone gaze. Hermes then led him to the gray women where he got information out of them for how to find the Hyperboreans. -
Important battle prep
Hermes led Perseus to the Hyperboreans and there he got essentials for the battle to come. He got winged sandals, a magic wallet that grew to the needed size, and a cap of invisibility. Now he was ready to face Medusa
-Cap of invisibility? Thought that was specially made for Hades? Now it's possible for humans to get one? What? Is this a common belief in their world? -
The Battle
Perseus flew to Medusa's island with Hermes and Athena at his side. The gorgons were sleeping when he arrived and Athena and Hermes pointed out Medusa. Perseus, looking through his shield so he wasn't turned to stone, sliced off Medusa's head and put it in the magic wallet. Then he took off as fast as he could because the other Gorgons were upset with him. -
Beauty and the Beast
As Peseus was high tailing it home, he saw a beautiful woman chained at the edge of a cliff. Peseus fell instantly in love and stood by the woman. He learned that she was to be sacrificed to a great sea monster because it was the only way to stop it attacking her city. Perseus decided not to let that happen. He pulled out his sword and waited for the beast to attack and he cut its head off like Medusa. Then he freed the woman (Andromeda) and he proceded to marry her with her parents permission. -
Analysis of Beauty and the Beast
I don't see why this is in the story. It disrupts the flow for me. It's as if the story was being written and is almost at the end and then the author's all like "oh wait, yeah this totally happened too." It's random. And the fact that he just flew down and saved a woman who he didn't even know. Quality of a hero yes, but then he proceeds to marry her. Without even getting to know her? If nothing else it's a classic damsel in distress. -
The Killing of Polydectes
With his new wife Perseus flew back to the island where his mother was. There he learned that Dictys and his mother had fled because Polydectes was furious that Perseus's mom refused to marry him. Perseus enraged, went to a gathering that Polydectes was having. As Perseus entered the building he pulled out the head of Medusa and turned everyone in the building into stone. And that was the end of Polydectes. -
Completion of the Prophecy
Perseus wanted to reconcile with King Acrisius, but he couldn't find him. So later Perseus went to a great athletic competition. He was throwing discus there. Perseus threw a disk that went astray and it ended up hitting and killing a spectator in the stands. That spectator happend to be King Acrisius.
-There is absolutely no way to escape one's fate in ancient Greece.