Perseus

Perseus in Wikipedia

Perseus (Greek: Περσεύς),[note 1] the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty there, was the first of the mythic heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths of the Twelve Olympians. Perseus was the Greek hero who killed the Gorgon Medusa, and claimed Andromeda, having re...

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Perseus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Περσεύς). Son of Zeus and Danae, the daughter of Acrisius. A sketch of his fabulous history has already been given under a previous article (see Danae); and it remains here but to relate the particulars of his enterprise against the Gorgons. When Perseus had made his rash promise to Polydectes, by which he bound himself to bring the latter the Gor...

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