Perseus
Mythology was the way that the Greek and Roman’s explained the unexplainable. Perseus is a legend in Greek mythology for his great roll in the beheading of the impious medusa.
The great tail of Perseus begins 2 generations before he was born. It started when his grandfather Acrisius, king of Argos a Greek isle. Acrisius had a daughter named Danae who was locked in an all bronze house because Acrisius went to the oracle asking if he would ever be a grandfather to a …showed first 85 words of 617 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 617 total…cut off her head with a single blow from his mighty sword. Then he stuffed it into the magical wallet and flew away on his magical winged feet.
On his way back he stumbled upon a beautiful girl who was to be sacrificed on a mountain. He rescued her and fell in love with her. Her name was Andromeda. Perseus and Andromeda lived happily ever after. Medusas head was given to Athena to bare on aegis Zues’s shield which she carried for him.
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