In Greek mythology, Perseus is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. He was a demigod, being the son of Zeus and the mortal Danaë, as well as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both children of Zeus, and Heracles’s mother was Perseus’ granddaughter).
Appearance List Literature: Hesiod’s Theogony (c. 8th–7th centuries BCE), The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius (3rd century BCE), Apollodorus’ Library (1st–2nd century CE), the Bibliotheca (1st-2nd century CE), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE), Suda Encyclopedia (10th century), et. al.
Sample Read A Book of Myths (1915) by Jeanie Lang [Internet Archive]
Description In Greek mythology, Perseus is the legendary founder of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus. He was a demigod, being the son of Zeus and the mortal Danaë, as well as the half-brother and great-grandfather of Heracles (as they were both children of Zeus, and Heracles’s mother was Perseus’ granddaughter).
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