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Title: Perseus


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Perseus
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Perseus
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Perseus Birth
  • king Acrisius
  • beautiful daughter Danae

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Perseus Birth
  • The prophecy
  • locked Danae in a bronze tower
  • bright shower of gold
  • A son of Zeus

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Perseus Birth
  • shut up in a large chest
  • cast them out to sea

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Perseus Birth
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Perseus Birth
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  • got safely to the island of Seriphos
  • Dictys save them
  • become a strong young man
  • King Polydectes

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A plan to get rid of Perseus
  • pretend to marry
  • no wedding present to give
  • Bring the head of the gorgon Medusa

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The gorgons
  • black serpents writhed on their head
  • instantly turned to stone

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The gorgons
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The gorgons
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Hermes Athenas help
  • perilous voyage
  • realized how hopeless

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Hermes Athenas help
  • winged sandals
  • sickle
  • Shield
  • find the Graeae

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Hermes Athenas help
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Find the Graeae
  • Three strange women
  • having only one eye

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Find the Graeae
  • snatched the eye from them
  • Tell him how to find the Nymphs of the North

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Nymphs of the North
  • the Cap of Darkness
  • the magic wallet
  • Tell him how to reach gorgans lair

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Kill Medusa
  • looking into the shield
  • Cut Medusas head by the sickle
  • Put her head in the magic wallet

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Kill Medusa
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Kill Medusa
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Kill Medusa
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Way back to Seriphus
  • many adventures

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Turned Atlas into stone
  • Atlas hold up the sky
  • Turn him into stone

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Turned Atlas into stone
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Meet Andromeda
  • Look like a statue chained to a rock
  • Poseidon
  • sacrificed to a sea monster

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Meet Andromeda
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Meet Andromeda
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Meet Andromeda
  • Turn the sea monster to stone
  • King Cepheus of Phoenicia
  • Marry

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Way back to Seriphus
  • stopped at Larisa
  • compete in some games
  • discus hit Acrisius
  • the prophecy came true

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Come back to Seriphus
  • forced Danae to be his handmaiden

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Come back to Seriphus
  • lived happily
  • descendants became great kings
  • Heracles

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  • Perseus was killed by Dionysus
  • were put up in the sky as constellations

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