Perseus

media type="custom" key="19727" type="custom" key="19727" This is the story of a god named Perseus who is the son of Zeus and Danea. They were found in a chest by a man on an island who wanted to help Danea with her baby. Zues heard Danea prayer and spaired her life because he loved her so much. When he prized off the lid, to his surprise he saw Danae and the baby inside! He was a kind man, and took them in, and they lived in his house while the boy grew up. Perseus grew up strong, brave, and handsome, and won prizes in the athletic games of the island.So the king Polydectes noticed him because all of the things he was good at. So Polydectes is determined to make Perseus mother his wife. But Danea would not hear of it. She, the wife of the immortal Zues, to give herself to the petty chief of a small island! The king was afraid of Perseus and he soon saw that Perseus must be bot out of the way. Accordingly, he pretended to flatter him on his success in the games.The king played with Perseus head by telling him that he was a fine boy, that he could beat everyone in this island at hte running and boxing and wrestliing. In fact, that he is wasted in as small place like this. But one hting that the king didn't know was that Perseus was a real hero, as being the son of Zues.Danea kept htat secret to herself. Now the king is telling Persues to bring him Medusa. Perseus is confused right now he doesn't even know who Medusa is. So the king stars to tell him the story of the three evil sisters. Their names are the Strong, the Leaper, and the Queen, that is Medusa. Strong and Leaper are ugly things, but the Gorgon Medusa is the most beautiful creature in the world. So the king is telling Perseus to get the head of Medusa and to not ask him any questions about it. Perseus asked "were can they be found?" The king said "Far away in hte west, in the land of darkness. You must find your own way, for I do not know any more about it." This fired the ambition of Perseus, and he ws determined to fetch Medusa's head. The gods knew all this, of course; and as Perseus was thinking what to do, suddenly Athena appeared to him, and said: "Perseus, do you know know me?" "Indeed I do!" said Perseus. "You are the great goddess Athena." "Well," said Athena, "we gods are going to help you. First of all look at this," and she showed him the image of a head: the face was very beautiful, but cruel and cold and unhappy, and instead of hair, it had curling ringlets of snakes all round. "That is the Gorgon Medusa," she said, "but if you look at the real face, you will be turned into stone." Video href="[|http://www.glittergraphics.us]"Perseus http://www.mythweb.com/encyc/entries/perseus.html#|top the Perseus page that Tyfeni Thornton & David Capodagli will be creating.
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