King Acricius of Argos was a very worried man. The Oracle said that his daughter would have a son who would kill him so he locked his daughter Danae up. However, Zeus still fell in love with her and they had a son, Perseus. Acricius was outraged and he threw Danae and Perseus into the sea. Luckily they were in a chest and they landed on an island called Seriphos where a fisherman found them.
Perseus grew up there but there was a problem. The king of the island met the beautiful Danae and fell in love with her but she didn’t love him. King Polydectes wanted to get Perseus out of the way so that he could make Danae marry him. He tricked Perseus into promising to get him a Gorgon’s head. The Gorgons were terrible monsters who turned anyone who looked at them into stone. Perseus was very worried but luckily Zeus wanted to help him. He sent two other Gods, Athena and Hermes to give him magical gifts. Athena gave him a polished bronze shield so he did not need to look at the Gorgon and a sickle to cut of its head. Hermes gave him winged sandals so that he could fly.
The sandals took him to the Grey Ones who were three old women who shared one eye and one tooth. Perseus took the eye and the tooth and demanded information. The Grey ones told him how to find the Nymphs and the Nymphs gave him a hat to make him invisible and a special bag to put the Gorgon’s head in. They also told him where to find the Gorgons.
Perseus flew there with his winged sandals. Nervously he entered the cave where he found the three Gorgons sleeping. Using the shield Perseus crept close and used the sickle to chop off Medusa’s head. He carefully put it in the magic bag and flew home.
On the way home he saw a girl chained to a rock. She was called Andromeda and she was about to be sacrificed to a terrible sea monster. Perseus flew over to the girl and told her to close her eyes. He held up Medusa’s head and the monster was turned to stone. Perseus had fallen in love with Andromeda so he took her with him and they were married.
When Perseus got home he found King Polydectes celebrating because he thought Perseus was dead. Perseus held up Medusa’s head and turned the king to stone. Perseus then found his mother hiding in a temple. Perseus, Danae and Andromeda went back to Argos. Later, Perseus accidentally killed Acricius just as the Oracle had predicted.
The king of Argos Acrisius was told that his future grandson would one day kill him.Acrisuis made sure his daughter Danae was locked away so no one would touch her.One day Zeus who was a god came to Danae and Perseus was born.Arcrisius was sure he would kill him so he put Danae and Perseus in a chest and threw it into the sea.They were saved and taken in by Polydectes the brother of the King of Serifos where they had washed ashore. When Perseus was grown up he was in the way of the king who wanted to marry his mother so Polydectes sent Perseus on a mission to bring him the head of the gorgon Medusa. Perseus went to ask the three fates who were very old ugly women who had one eye and one tooth so they had to tell him where Medusa was. On his way Perseus met the god Hermes and Athea they gave winged sandals,shield and a sword to help him kill Medusa. When Perseus found the cave of Medusa he remembered what he was told that Medusa could turn anything to stone if they looked upon her and he must use his shield to look at her which he did then Perseus chopped off her head. On his way back he saw Andromeda chained to a rock.and decided to save her,as she told Perseus that she was to be sacrified to the Kracken. Which was a huge ugly monster..Perseus spoke to her parents who agreed that he could marry Andromeda if he saved her from her fate. The Kracken rose out of the sea towards Andromeda; Perseus held up Medusa's head and the Kracken turned to stone. Perseus and Andromeda eventually married. $£MATTHEW£$
Introduction: - This Greek myth some say was set in the island of Crete.
Poseidon, God of the water cursed Medusa, practically because he was jealous of Neptune marrying her. One thing the gods didn’t know that this curse would cause lots more riot in the world because he had turned Medusa into a Gorgon.
King Acrusius was a terribly worried man. Once the Oracle had visited the quite elegant palace, he was thinking very deeply every day. The Oracle rolled the dice which predicted the wise but worried king. The Oracle exclaimed in a low, deep voice that the king would perish in the hands of his daughter’s son. Then the Oracle walked back inaudibly to his house.
King Acrusius had a daughter whose name was Danae. The king locked Danae in a very forbidding tower. However the god Zeus gave Danae a son. She named him Perseus.
When King Acrusius heard the news, he went fumingly mad. He locked Danae and her son Perseus in a chest and threw them far, far away into the distance.
A fisherman found Danae and Perseus lying in the chest and brought up them. Perseus then grew up to a handsome young man.
There was a king called King Polydectes and when he had a glimpse at Danae, he instantaneously fell in love with her. He offered her in every opportunity but she only just tossed her head and shouted “no!”.
King Polydectes decided to send Perseus on a quest thinking that if he was gone, then Danae would marry the evil king.
The quest was to get the head of a lethal Gorgon called Medusa. Inside a dark, gloomy cave lived three deadly, horrible Gorgons. Only one of them can be killed and that one was Medusa. Perseus found out that if you look into the Gorgon’s eyes, you will instantly be turned to stone for as long as you could imagine. Perseus accepted the challenge no matter how hard it would be.
On his monstrous journey, he had to walk a long way. Suddenly the god Zeus and goddess Athena appeared. They gave Perseus a shield, a sickle, a bag, some winged sandals and a cloak to make him invisible to help him on his journey. Perseus was feeling a lot more confident than before because now, he had the gods help and support with him.
Finally, Athena told him that he should look for the grey ones for assistance. Now Perseus was good to carry on with his journey.
He searched everywhere for the grey ones. When Perseus saw them he found out that the grey ones only shared one eye and one tooth between them. It was quite a horrible sight. The grey ones refused to tell Perseus the route to the Gorgons, so Perseus snatched the eye and the tooth from them. They finally told Perseus the route. Perseus then gave back the eye and the tooth they were sharing.
Perseus went into the deep dark cave. He found out that the Gorgons were sleeping so in one whole slice he chopped of the Gorgon, Medusa’s head and flew back using his winged sandals. Despite the journey back being quite hard, Perseus somehow managed it.
When Perseus went back King Polydectes was furious, but before he could talk, Perseus took out the head of the Gorgon out of his bag and King Polydectes was instantly turned to stone.
Perseus lived happily with Danae and they both went back to King Acrusius where Perseus killed King Acrusius by mistake. After him killing his father by accident, he felt that Argos, the place which Acrusius had reigned, was not as happy as before so he went to a city called Mycenæ where he ruled for a long time. When Perseus died the gods that Perseus served put him in the skies next to Andromeda, where he is still shining now.
Danae was going to have a baby who would kill King Acricius. King Acricius put them both in a chest and pushed them out to sea. A fisherman found them and he took them to King Polydectes. He fell in love with Danae but Perseus said, “No, you will not marry my mother.” King Polydectes sent Perseus on a quest to get the Gorgons head, so he went to get Medusa’s head. Athena gave him a polished bronze shield and a sickle to cut off Medusa’s head, and Hermes gave him sandals of swiftness so he could fly. Perseus went to find the Grey Ones who knew about the Gorgons. He found them and asked them to help him. They said, “No,” so he took their eye and their tooth, so the Grey Ones told him to go and meet the Nymphs. They gave him a helmet of invisibility and a bag to put the Gorgons head in. The Grey Ones also told him that if you look into the eyes of the Gorgons you will be turned to stone. Perseus set off again to find Medusa. On the way to the Gorgons he saw many other people who had been turned to stone and many animals too. He used his bronze shield as a mirror and then chopped off Medusa’s head with his sickle. He flew back to King Polydectes, who had thought that Perseus was dead. Perseus showed Medusa’s head to the King who was turned to stone.
After an Oracle warned King Acrisius of Argos that one day his grandson would kill him, he imprisoned his beautiful daughter, Danäe in an iron room open to the sky. Meanwhile, Zeus the king of the gods saw Danäe and instantly fell in love with her. He sent a golden ray of light that showered upon Danäe and she had a baby, whom she named Perseus. Unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing them, an outraged King Acrisius threw them into the sea, after locking them in a chest expecting them to drown. Instead, the chest floated, and mother and child washed ashore on the island of Seriphos. Here, a fisherman called Dictys, brother to King Polydectes found them. They were taken to him, and he immediately fell in love with Danäe, wanting to marry her, much to Perseus’ dislike as he grew up. So one day, Polydectes decided to get rid of him and plotted to send him away by inviting Perseus to a feast, where the guests were expected to bring gifts. The next evening, when Perseus showed up not bearing a present and Polydectes demanded one, Perseus said he could bring anything. Taking this opportunity, Polydectes demanded the head of the only mortal Gorgon (among the three gorgon sister’s), Medusa, the horrible monstrous creature who had hissing snakes for hair, and whose eyes could turn people to stone. Although Medusa used to be a very pretty girl, she was very proud and always boasting that there was not even a goddess more beautiful than her, thus angering the gods who punished her by turning her into a hideous Gorgon. An uneasy silence hung, only to be broken by Perseus, saying that he accepted the challenge. He set off on his perilous voyage, and upon coming to the crossroads, Hermes and his sister Athena came before him and gifted him with a few things which would help him slay Medusa. Hermes gave Perseus his winged sandals and sickle, and Athena gave him her bronze shield to reflect the image of Medusa so that he won’t be turned to stone. They told him to find the Grey Ones (the Graeae), who in turn would tell him where the Nymphs of the North lived, and so he set off again. That night, he found the Graeae - three old, hideous sisters, with only an eye and a tooth between them, for which they constantly fought among each other. Sneaking up silently, Perseus grabbed the eye and tooth, held them ransom saying that he would drop their eye and tooth into the raging sea, unless they told him the location of the Sea Nymphs. They immediately agreed, and told him how to find them, who gladly helped him, for they too, despised the Gorgons. They gave him a bag to carry her heavy head, and an invisibility helmet. On reaching the Gorgons’ lair, Perseus put on his invisibility helmet and with his sickle quickly chopped off Medusa’s head, stuffed it into his bag, put on his winged sandals and flew away. Though the journey back was rough, Perseus survived, and also rescued a fair maiden called Andromeda. She was chained to a rock to be sacrificed to the sea monster sent by Poseidon, who was angered by her mother boasting that Andromeda was more beautiful than the other sea goddesses. When the monster came out from the sea, Perseus pulled out Medusa’s head from the bag and turned it to stone and rescued Andromeda. Upon reaching Polydectes’ palace with Andromeda, he took Medusa’s head out, turned Polydectes and his subjects to stone. He married Andromeda, settled down back at Argos and lived happily for many years. Inevitably at Larisa, one day while competing in the games, Perseus threw a discus and accidentally hit an old man who was none other than Acrisius, his grandfather - thus proving the prophecy to be true. Perseus was killed later by Dionysus, and Perseus and Andromeda were put up in the sky as constellations forever.
Perseus and Medusa
ReplyDeleteKing Acricius of Argos was a very worried man. The Oracle said that his daughter would have a son who would kill him so he locked his daughter Danae up. However, Zeus still fell in love with her and they had a son, Perseus. Acricius was outraged and he threw Danae and Perseus into the sea. Luckily they were in a chest and they landed on an island called Seriphos where a fisherman found them.
Perseus grew up there but there was a problem. The king of the island met the beautiful Danae and fell in love with her but she didn’t love him. King Polydectes wanted to get Perseus out of the way so that he could make Danae marry him. He tricked Perseus into promising to get him a Gorgon’s head. The Gorgons were terrible monsters who turned anyone who looked at them into stone. Perseus was very worried but luckily Zeus wanted to help him. He sent two other Gods, Athena and Hermes to give him magical gifts. Athena gave him a polished bronze shield so he did not need to look at the Gorgon and a sickle to cut of its head. Hermes gave him winged sandals so that he could fly.
The sandals took him to the Grey Ones who were three old women who shared one eye and one tooth. Perseus took the eye and the tooth and demanded information. The Grey ones told him how to find the Nymphs and the Nymphs gave him a hat to make him invisible and a special bag to put the Gorgon’s head in. They also told him where to find the Gorgons.
Perseus flew there with his winged sandals. Nervously he entered the cave where he found the three Gorgons sleeping. Using the shield Perseus crept close and used the sickle to chop off Medusa’s head. He carefully put it in the magic bag and flew home.
On the way home he saw a girl chained to a rock. She was called Andromeda and she was about to be sacrificed to a terrible sea monster. Perseus flew over to the girl and told her to close her eyes. He held up Medusa’s head and the monster was turned to stone. Perseus had fallen in love with Andromeda so he took her with him and they were married.
When Perseus got home he found King Polydectes celebrating because he thought Perseus was dead. Perseus held up Medusa’s head and turned the king to stone. Perseus then found his mother hiding in a temple. Perseus, Danae and Andromeda went back to Argos. Later, Perseus accidentally killed Acricius just as the Oracle had predicted.
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The king of Argos Acrisius was told that his future grandson would one day kill him.Acrisuis made sure his daughter Danae was locked away so no one would touch her.One day Zeus who was a god came to Danae and Perseus was born.Arcrisius was sure he would kill him so he put Danae and Perseus in a chest and threw it into the sea.They were saved and taken in by Polydectes the brother of the King of Serifos where they had washed ashore.
ReplyDeleteWhen Perseus was grown up he was in the way of the king who wanted to marry his mother so Polydectes sent Perseus on a mission to bring him the head of the gorgon Medusa.
Perseus went to ask the three fates who were very old ugly women who had one eye and one tooth so they had to tell him where Medusa was.
On his way Perseus met the god Hermes and Athea they gave winged sandals,shield and a sword to help him kill Medusa.
When Perseus found the cave of Medusa he remembered what he was told that Medusa could turn anything to stone if they looked upon her and he must use his shield to look at her which he did then Perseus chopped off her head.
On his way back he saw Andromeda chained to a rock.and decided to save her,as she told Perseus that she was to be sacrified to the Kracken. Which was a huge ugly monster..Perseus spoke to her parents who agreed that he could marry Andromeda if he saved her from her fate.
The Kracken rose out of the sea towards Andromeda; Perseus held up Medusa's head and the Kracken turned to stone. Perseus and Andromeda eventually married. $£MATTHEW£$
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ReplyDeleteIntroduction: - This Greek myth some say was set in the island of Crete.
Poseidon, God of the water cursed Medusa, practically because he was jealous of Neptune marrying her. One thing the gods didn’t know that this curse would cause lots more riot in the world because he had turned Medusa into a Gorgon.
King Acrusius was a terribly worried man. Once the Oracle had visited the quite elegant palace, he was thinking very deeply every day. The Oracle rolled the dice which predicted the wise but worried king. The Oracle exclaimed in a low, deep voice that the king would perish in the hands of his daughter’s son. Then the Oracle walked back inaudibly to his house.
King Acrusius had a daughter whose name was Danae. The king locked Danae in a very forbidding tower. However the god Zeus gave Danae a son. She named him Perseus.
When King Acrusius heard the news, he went fumingly mad. He locked Danae and her son Perseus in a chest and threw them far, far away into the distance.
A fisherman found Danae and Perseus lying in the chest and brought up them. Perseus then grew up to a handsome young man.
There was a king called King Polydectes and when he had a glimpse at Danae, he instantaneously fell in love with her. He offered her in every opportunity but she only just tossed her head and shouted “no!”.
King Polydectes decided to send Perseus on a quest thinking that if he was gone, then Danae would marry the evil king.
The quest was to get the head of a lethal Gorgon called Medusa. Inside a dark, gloomy cave lived three deadly, horrible Gorgons. Only one of them can be killed and that one was Medusa. Perseus found out that if you look into the Gorgon’s eyes, you will instantly be turned to stone for as long as you could imagine. Perseus accepted the challenge no matter how hard it would be.
On his monstrous journey, he had to walk a long way. Suddenly the god Zeus and goddess Athena appeared. They gave Perseus a shield, a sickle, a bag, some winged sandals and a cloak to make him invisible to help him on his journey. Perseus was feeling a lot more confident than before because now, he had the gods help and support with him.
Finally, Athena told him that he should look for the grey ones for assistance. Now Perseus was good to carry on with his journey.
He searched everywhere for the grey ones. When Perseus saw them he found out that the grey ones only shared one eye and one tooth between them. It was quite a horrible sight. The grey ones refused to tell Perseus the route to the Gorgons, so Perseus snatched the eye and the tooth from them. They finally told Perseus the route. Perseus then gave back the eye and the tooth they were sharing.
Perseus went into the deep dark cave. He found out that the Gorgons were sleeping so in one whole slice he chopped of the Gorgon, Medusa’s head and flew back using his winged sandals. Despite the journey back being quite hard, Perseus somehow managed it.
When Perseus went back King Polydectes was furious, but before he could talk, Perseus took out the head of the Gorgon out of his bag and King Polydectes was instantly turned to stone.
Perseus lived happily with Danae and they both went back to King Acrusius where Perseus killed King Acrusius by mistake. After him killing his father by accident, he felt that Argos, the place which Acrusius had reigned, was not as happy as before so he went to a city called Mycenæ where he ruled for a long time. When Perseus died the gods that Perseus served put him in the skies next to Andromeda, where he is still shining now.
Danae was going to have a baby who would kill King Acricius. King Acricius put them both in a chest and pushed them out to sea. A fisherman found them and he took them to King Polydectes. He fell in love with Danae but Perseus said, “No, you will not marry my mother.” King Polydectes sent Perseus on a quest to get the Gorgons head, so he went to get Medusa’s head. Athena gave him a polished bronze shield and a sickle to cut off Medusa’s head, and Hermes gave him sandals of swiftness so he could fly. Perseus went to find the Grey Ones who knew about the Gorgons. He found them and asked them to help him. They said, “No,” so he took their eye and their tooth, so the Grey Ones told him to go and meet the Nymphs. They gave him a helmet of invisibility and a bag to put the Gorgons head in. The Grey Ones also told him that if you look into the eyes of the Gorgons you will be turned to stone. Perseus set off again to find Medusa. On the way to the Gorgons he saw many other people who had been turned to stone and many animals too. He used his bronze shield as a mirror and then chopped off Medusa’s head with his sickle. He flew back to King Polydectes, who had thought that Perseus was dead. Perseus showed Medusa’s head to the King who was turned to stone.
ReplyDeleteAfter an Oracle warned King Acrisius of Argos that one day his grandson would kill him, he imprisoned his beautiful daughter, Danäe in an iron room open to the sky. Meanwhile, Zeus the king of the gods saw Danäe and instantly fell in love with her. He sent a golden ray of light that showered upon Danäe and she had a baby, whom she named Perseus. Unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing them, an outraged King Acrisius threw them into the sea, after locking them in a chest expecting them to drown. Instead, the chest floated, and mother and child washed ashore on the island of Seriphos.
ReplyDeleteHere, a fisherman called Dictys, brother to King Polydectes found them. They were taken to him, and he immediately fell in love with Danäe, wanting to marry her, much to Perseus’ dislike as he grew up. So one day, Polydectes decided to get rid of him and plotted to send him away by inviting Perseus to a feast, where the guests were expected to bring gifts. The next evening, when Perseus showed up not bearing a present and Polydectes demanded one, Perseus said he could bring anything. Taking this opportunity, Polydectes demanded the head of the only mortal Gorgon (among the three gorgon sister’s), Medusa, the horrible monstrous creature who had hissing snakes for hair, and whose eyes could turn people to stone. Although Medusa used to be a very pretty girl, she was very proud and always boasting that there was not even a goddess more beautiful than her, thus angering the gods who punished her by turning her into a hideous Gorgon.
An uneasy silence hung, only to be broken by Perseus, saying that he accepted the challenge.
He set off on his perilous voyage, and upon coming to the crossroads, Hermes and his sister Athena came before him and gifted him with a few things which would help him slay Medusa.
Hermes gave Perseus his winged sandals and sickle, and Athena gave him her bronze shield to reflect the image of Medusa so that he won’t be turned to stone. They told him to find the Grey Ones (the Graeae), who in turn would tell him where the Nymphs of the North lived, and so he set off again.
That night, he found the Graeae - three old, hideous sisters, with only an eye and a tooth between them, for which they constantly fought among each other. Sneaking up silently, Perseus grabbed the eye and tooth, held them ransom saying that he would drop their eye and tooth into the raging sea, unless they told him the location of the Sea Nymphs. They immediately agreed, and told him how to find them, who gladly helped him, for they too, despised the Gorgons. They gave him a bag to carry her heavy head, and an invisibility helmet.
On reaching the Gorgons’ lair, Perseus put on his invisibility helmet and with his sickle quickly chopped off Medusa’s head, stuffed it into his bag, put on his winged sandals and flew away.
Though the journey back was rough, Perseus survived, and also rescued a fair maiden called Andromeda. She was chained to a rock to be sacrificed to the sea monster sent by Poseidon, who was angered by her mother boasting that Andromeda was more beautiful than the other sea goddesses. When the monster came out from the sea, Perseus pulled out Medusa’s head from the bag and turned it to stone and rescued Andromeda.
Upon reaching Polydectes’ palace with Andromeda, he took Medusa’s head out, turned Polydectes and his subjects to stone. He married Andromeda, settled down back at Argos and lived happily for many years.
Inevitably at Larisa, one day while competing in the games, Perseus threw a discus and accidentally hit an old man who was none other than Acrisius, his grandfather - thus proving the prophecy to be true.
Perseus was killed later by Dionysus, and Perseus and Andromeda were put up in the sky as constellations forever.