ALEXA JIMENA´S REVIEW ON PERSEUS & MEDUSA

MEDUSA

This very famous Greek myth, begins when the King of the Argos, King Acrisius was told by the Oracle of Delphi, that his very own grandson would someday murder him; scared that the oracle´s prophecy might come true, King Acrisius imprisioned his daughter Danae, in a room he built beneath the Earth to prevent the young lady from having any sexual intercourse so she wouldn´t get pregneant.
However, this was of no use, because Zeus came to Danae in the form of golden rain, going inside her body, eventually getting her preagnant. When the King found out about his daughter´s mysterious pregnancy and about Zeus being the baby´s father, he let his daughter and grandson out to sea on an ark, where the waves carried them to the shores of Serifos Island. Once in Serifos Island, they were adopted by a couple,who were really the  brother and sister-in-law of the King of the island Polydectes.
When Perseus grew up to become a good-looking, healthy, strong man, he found himself in the way of King Polydectes; the King wanted to make Danae his wife, but he knew he couldn´t have her as long as her son was there to protect her. King Polydectes decided to send Perseus on a dangerous, far away misión to get rid of him; Perseus was to bring the head of the gorgon Medusa to the king.
Medusa came from a family of three beautiful sisters, the gorgons, but Medusa was the only mortal one. Medusa was so gorgeous, that Poseidon, king of the sea, was madly in love with her, but Medusa did not give a damn about his feelings. Brokenhearted and furious, Poseidon turned Medusa and her sisters into monstrous creatures with live snakes covering their heads. Whenever anyone dared to look at Medusa in the eyes, that person would turn into stone.
When Perseus chopped off Medusa´s head,two offspring appeared from the drops of her blood; the winged horse, Pegasus, and a giant winged boar, Chrysaor. It is said that those two were the children of Medusa and Poseidon.
Anyway, once Perseus had accomplished his misión, Medusa´s sisters tried to attack him but he escaped; he used Medusa´s head as a weapon until he turned it over to Athena to place it on her shield.


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