Perseus and Medusa

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Perseus and Medusa 

• Ellyn Carroll, Lauren Toddy, Kirsten Smith,
  Julian Thomas
• Hour 5

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 Perseus

• Son of Zeus and Danae
• married to Argos and also father of Electryon
•  most gods loved him
•  killed his father
•  once was a mortal, but turned immortal
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Medusa

• Chief of the Gorgons
• daughter of Phorcys and Ceto
• once beautiful
• only mortal out of the three sisters
• also she is the youngest
• turned people into stone when they looked into
  her eyes.
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minor characters    

• King of Acrisius-warned by an oracle that he
  would be killed by a son born to his daughter
  Danae.
• Danea-mother of Persues. was locked up in a
  tower.
• Dictys-a fishermen, his brother wanted to be with
  Danea
• Athena-goddess of crafts and war.
• disliked Medusa for many reason
• helped Persues on his mission to chop of medusa's
  head.
• Atlas-gave directions
• Graeae-old sea hags
• nymphs
• Hermes
• Medusa's sisters
• Peqasus- a horse that was born from the bleeding
  neck of medusa

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 Creative Retelling    http//www.historyfor
kids.org/learn/greeks/religion/myths/perseus2.htm
 
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Metaphysical

• Related-
• When Danea got locked up in the tower and Zues
  got in anyway disguised as a golden shower, and
  as a result perseus was born.
• Perseus had an ally Athena, the goddest of craft
  and war.
• The Gray Sisters will help you and tell you who
  holds the heavens on his back.
• Athena lent Perseus her mirrored shield.
• The God Hermes helped by providing a special
  cutting implement.
• Athena immortalized Perseus and placed him in the
  sky as a constilation.
• Lesson-
• Don't trust everything you see or hear because it
  could be a trap.
• Even if you feel alone you always can find
  someone to help you like Perseus did with the God
  Athena, the Gray Sisters, Nymphs, and Hermes.
• If you do something great you will be remembered
  for it like Perseus. When people look in the sky
  the see him.
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Cosmological

• Related-
• Acrisius dumped the chest into the sea expecting
  it to sink but it floated to an island called
  Seriphos.
• Perseus said that he would scour the sea, he
  would quest to the ends of the earth.
• When Perseus chopped off Medusa's head a Pegasus
  was born of her blood.
• Perseus killed the sea monster with the sword.
• Lesson-
•  Dont underestimate nature like Arcrisius did
  thinking the sea would kill his daughter and
  infant.
• To protect someone you love you will even face
  nature at its best.
• Even from the blood of something gross and evil
  something majestic and beautiful can be born from
  it.
• Even the biggest and badest things of nature can
  be slain.

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Psychological

• Related-
•  When Perseus had to go get Medusa's head, he was
  afraid but he had to do it because he needed to
  save his mother.
• Perseus questioned himself as to how much
  protection he needed to escape Medusa and her
  sisters.
•  Perseus debated whether he should go see the
  beautiful maiden or not.
• Lesson-
•  Do what's right and face your fears because
  sometimes if you don't, bad things will happen.
• You can never be over prepaired for a dangerous
  situation.
• Sometimes letting yourself fall into temptation
  can lead to beautiful things.

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Sociological

• Related-
•  So Acrisius straightaway stuck daughter and
  infant into a chest and pushed it out to sea.
• Dictys... adopted a protective attitude toward
  the chest's contents. the daughter, Danae and
  infant, Perseus
• Dictys' brother took fancy to Danae and pressed
  his attentions on her. Perseus didn't like that
  so Polydectes (Dictys' brother) grew subtle in
  the means of achieving his desires.
• When Perseus came back with Medusa's head, he
  asked if Polydectes wanted to see it. Polydectes
  said yes, and was turned to stone.
• Lesson-
• Pushing aside problems, instead of dealing with
  them, can find a way to get back at you.
• Getting what you want can really be what's worst
  for you.

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Allusions Perseus

• -Perseus by Hitomi Shimatani song
• -Perseus by Robert Hayden poem
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• Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass of
  serpents torpidly astirburned into the mirroring
  shield--a scathing image direas hated truth the
  mind accepts at lastand festers on. I struck.
  The shield flashed bare. 

Yet even as I lifted up the headand started from
that placeof gazing silences and terrored
stone,I thirsted to destroy.None could have
passed me then--no garland-bearing girl, no
priestor staring boy--and lived.
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Allusions Perseus
ART
"Perseus" by Cellini

• PC game F.E.A.R  Mission Perseus

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Allusions Medusa

• "Medusa" byMatthew WhitakerI song
• With gaping mouths the serpents waveMadly in the
  shadows of a darkened caveHanging there like
  snakes upon Medusas head
• So Medusas gonna turn them into statues
  today!Medusas gonna turn you into limestone
  tonight And you feel like youre a mountainLike
  a hundred thousand people here beforeAnd you
  know that in the morning when you wake up
• Youll be stone for ever more Medusa petrifies
  your children

Medusa, by Louise Bogan poem
    I had come to the house, in a cave of trees,
Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell
hung ready to strike, Sun and reflection
wheeled by. When the bare eyes were before me
And the hissing hair, The stiff bald eyes, the
serpents on the forehead   Deep on the ground.
And I shall stand here like a shadow
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Allusions Medusa
ART

• Medusa Lounge pop cultureLos Angeles, CA  

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