Athena told Perseus where to find the Graeae. When he came to their cavern he hid, waiting in the dark for the perfect time to strike. When two of the sisters were passing the eye between each other, he snatched it from their grasp. He agreed to return it only if they told him the information he needed. They told him how to find the garden of the Hesperides.
Sources differ on whether he left them in peace or threw their only eye into the sea as he left. When he reached the garden, the nymphs gave him two powerful tools. He crept in as quietly as he could to avoid waking them. As he did show, he held the gleaming shield of Athena before him and stared into it.
The sight of Medusa turned a man to stone, but by focusing only on the reflections in the shield he could find her without actually looking directly at her. When he was close enough he swung down hard with the sword. Perseus beheaded the Gorgon with a single stroke, having never looked directly at her. Her dying scream, however, woke up her man-eating sisters. He flew out of the cave, quickly dodging them and making his escape unseen.
His escape was probably aided by additional sources of chaos in the dark cavern. Perseus flew away, stopping in Ethiopia to rescue Andromeda from a sea monster before returning to his own homeland. Many stories of Greek heroes involved exceptional feats of strength. Hercules , for example, was well-known for defeating many enemies with both his powerful weapons and in unarmed combat. Perseus, however, did not succeed because of his mastery of weapons or sheer brute strength.
He used the skills favored by his divine patrons, Athena and Hermes. Athena was the goddess of wisdom and warfare, who was known to always show favor to those who fought for a just cause. While she often helped the heroes of Greek legends, she showed particular care to those who used their intelligence when they fought. Perseus did not rush immediately into an unwinnable fight against impossible odds. He sought out information, strategized, and planned out his course of action.
While Athena was often associated with heroes who employed wisdom in their fighting, Hermes was a less common patron of noble causes. As a trickster god, however, his help was invaluable to Perseus. Hermes was the patron god of thieves, and Perseus used many similar tricks to complete his quest. He crept through the shadows and used a theft, that of the eye of the Graeae, to achieve his ends.
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What is the story behind Pandora's box? In mythology. Why does Athena's shield have Medusa on it? Did Perseus marry Io? Io mythology. Why did Perseus kill Polydectes? How does Medusa relate to today? Athena then punished her for desecrating her sacred space by cursing Medusa with a head full of snakes and a gaze that turns men to stone. Then, a heroic Perseus severed the serpent-headed Medusa, turning her into a trophy. Percy did the same in The Sea of Monsters.
However, Perseus was a demigod son of Zeus , as opposed to Percy Jackson who is the demigod son of Poseidon. He is a cousin to Percy because his father, Zeus, is the brother of Percy's father, Poseidon. I think that the moral of Medusa tells us to appreciate others and to think about others as well as yourself. It tells the reader not to make the same mistake as Medusa did, and if you do you will have to pay for it. I think it also tells us to think before you say things.
A goddess is a female deity. Goddesses have been linked with virtues such as beauty, love, sexuality, motherhood, creativity, and fertility exemplified by the ancient mother goddess cult. Amphitrite , in Greek mythology, the goddess of the sea, wife of the god Poseidon, and one of the 50 or daughters the Nereids of Nereus and Doris the daughter of Oceanus. Poseidon chose Amphitrite from among her sisters as the Nereids performed a dance on the isle of Naxos.
Poseidon's strengths: He is a creative god, designing all the creatures of the sea. He can control waves and ocean conditions. Poseidon's weaknesses: Warlike, though not so much as Ares; moody and unpredictable. Spouse: Amphitrite, a sea goddess. Pegasus is the brother of Chrysaor and the uncle of Geryon. According to Hyginus, Fabulae , Megapenthes eventually killed Perseus, to avenge the death of his father.
Polydectes was the king of the island of Seriphos in Greek mythology, son of Magnes and a Naiad; or Peristhenes and Androthoe; or Poseidon and Cerebia.
He was the ruler of the island when Danae and her son Perseus were washed ashore and his brother Dictys saved them. The death of Hercules was caused by the venom of the Lernean Hydra , but brought about many years after he killed the monster as one of his twelve labors.
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