WHO HERE IS INTERESTED IN GREEK MYTHS?? Here is the myth of Perseus!! Perseus's story starts way before he was even born. The king of Creaseus was told by an oracle that he was doomed to die at the hands of he grandson. He ended up locking his child away in an underground cell to allow her to die of old age. Zeus spotted the beautiful Deane and turned himself into golden dust to shower himself in her cell, making Deane pregnant with Perseus. When she had her kid, her father panicked because of the prophecy and locked them in a chest, throwing them out into the ocean where they ended drifting ashore of the tiny island of Ceraphane being rescued by a fisherman and his wife.

They lived well for a while until the king, Polydectes falls in love with Deane, so he tried to force her into getting married, but she refused. And because Polydectes was too scared of Perseus to press matters on, he decided to send Perseus on a quest that would surly get him killed. So Polydectes is able to convince Perseus to go and slay the gorgon Medusa, a young maiden who used to be beautiful, but was cursed when she and Poseidon were tsking things a little too far in a temple of Athena. Medusa was cursed with snake hair and became so ugly that if anyone looked at her, they'd get turned to stone.

On his way to find this Medusa, Perseus meets two gods who give him some magic items to make this quest possible. Hermes gave him a sword and his winged sandals as to where Athena gives him a mirror shield. Then they tell him that he needs to visit the Grey Sisters if he actually wants to find Medusa. Perseus manages to get the Grey Sisters to tell him where Medusa lives by holding their eyeball hostage. After he marks the location of Medusa, Perseus sets off to the next quest marker, which happened to be the gardian Hera. The nymphs of the garden give Perseus a sack to put Medusa's head in and a magic helmet to make him invisable. Perseus sets of once again and reaches the home of Medusa. He decided to sneak in while she was asleep and chop her head off.

As Perseus is flying home, he spots the beautiful princess Andromeda who is chained to rock at the edge of a cliff. Perseus flies on down and asks her why she's chained up. Well, her mother managed to make the ocean itself mad at her, so Poseidon sent a giant sea serpent to terrorize the kingdom and they can only make it stop if they sacrifice Andromeda. Perseus decides slay the giant sea serpent himself so Andromeda could live. Now, because this giant serpent was obviously much bigger than him, Perseus had to wear down the serpents deffenses until the beast lay slain at his feet.

So Perseus returns home to Polydectes to deliver the head of Medusa, which petrifies him and his entire court. After all of that is done, Perseus and Andromeda get married, the fisherman who rescued them became king, and everyone ends up happy. Wait a second, what about that prophecy that was issued? Well you see, a few years later, Perseus's grandfather visits the basically olyimpics in the city of Loriso where upon Perseus accidently beans him with a discus.