According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.

The 1981 film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes ( notably Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than Thetis as opposed to the Nereids as a group ).

In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, although it is depicted as a lizard-like creature rather than a squid ; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medusa's face, turning the monster into stone.

Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster.

It was supposed by Euripides ( Ion, 995 ) that the Gorgon was the original possessor of this goatskin, yet the usual understanding is that the Gorgoneion was added to the Aegis, a votive gift from a grateful Perseus.

It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath.

In Greek mythology, the monster Perseus defeated was called Ceto, which is depicted by the constellation of Cetus.

Hera was the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who was named " Hera-famous " in her honor ; Heracles is the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece.

The city is said in Greek mythology to have been founded by Acrisius, who was killed accidentally by his grandson, Perseus.

Cellini's bronze Perseus with the head of Medusa is certainly a masterpiece, designed with eight angles of view, another Mannerist characteristic, but is indeed mannered compared to the Davids of Michelangelo and Donatello.

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

One is that they sprang from the blood issuing from Medusa's neck as Perseus was beheading her, similar to the manner in which Athena was born from the head of Zeus.

In fact Pegasus is a late addition to the story of Perseus, who flew on his own with the sandals loaned him by Hermes.

*** More particularly following Lives and Comparisons ( D is Dryden translation ; G is Gutenberg ; P is Perseus Project ; L is LacusCurtius ):

These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone ( by Demeter ), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses ( by Mnemosyne ); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

* December 6 – WWII: HMS Perseus ( N36 ) is sunk by a mine.

Instead, it is revealed that Io has died sometime between the decade after the first movie takes place as Perseus is seen placing stones on her grave.

In Ovid's telling, Perseus revealed Medusa's head, turning Atlas to stone ( those very mountains ) when he tried to drive him away, as a prophecy said that a son of Zeus would steal the golden apples.

Chrysaor and Pegasus were said to be born from the drops of Medusa's blood which fell in the sea ; others say that they sprang from Medusa's neck as Perseus beheaded her, a " higher " birth ( such as the birth of Athena from the head of Zeus ).

He said that Heracles was four generations later than Perseus, which corresponds to the legendary succession: Perseus, Electryon, Alcmena, and Heracles, who was a contemporary of Eurystheus.

In a similar manner, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have been formed of Medusa's blood spilled onto seaweed when Perseus laid down the petrifying head beside the shore during his short stay in Ethiopia where he saved and wed his future wife, the lovely princess Andromeda.

Meanwhile the Dardanian envoys came with reports as to the number of the Bastarnae, the size of their men, and their courage in the field. They gave information also of the treacherous practices of Perseus and the Gauls, and said that they were more afraid of him than of the Bastarnae, and therefore begged the help of the Romans.

The ancient Greek word kibisis, said to describe the sack carried by the god Hermes and the sack in which the mythical hero Perseus carried the decapitated head of the monster Medusa, has been typically translated as " wallet ".

Perseus continued his efforts to involve Gentius in the war, preferably it was said, at no cost to his treasury.

She was saved from death by Perseus, her future husband.

* The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

Perseus and the head of Medusa by Antonio Canova

When, shortly before his son Heracles was born, Zeus proclaimed the next-born descendant of Perseus should get the kingdom, Hera thwarted his ambitions by delaying Alcmene's labour and having her candidate Eurystheus born prematurely.

* Morpheus lemmatiser, Greek and Latin morphological parser and lemmatising software produced by Perseus Project

When she was later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck.

He was the brother of Chrysaor, born at a single birthing when his mother was decapitated by Perseus.

In another version, when Perseus beheaded Medusa, they were born of the Earth, fed by the Gorgon's blood.

An illustration of the Perseus ( constellation ) | Perseus constellation ( after Perseus from Greek mythology ) from the star catalogue published by the German astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690

It was invented in 168 BC and was employed by some of the Macedonian troops of King Perseus in Third Macedonian war.

Medusa, one of the Gorgons, has two children with Poseidon: the winged horse Pegasus and giant Chrysaor, at the instant of her decapitation by Perseus.

In the 1930s, and led by Roy Fedden, the company developed the new Bristol Perseus line of radials based on the sleeve valve principle, which developed into some of the most powerful piston engines in the world, and continued to be sold into the 1960s.

When Perseus arrives in Larissa, he participates in some funeral games and accidentally strikes Acrisius on the head with a discus, killing him and fulfilling the prophecy.

Pelops and Hippodameia also had several daughters, some of whom married into the House of Perseus, such as Astydameia ( who married Alcaeus ), Nicippe ( who married Sthenelus ), and Eurydice ( who married Electryon ).

Although Perseus had some initial success, the war ended with the King's surrender to the Roman general Lucius Aemilius Paullus after his decisive defeat at the Battle of Pydna, and his eventual imprisonment in Rome with his half-brother Philippus and son Alexander.

More likely it was the result of some Roman foragers getting a little too close and being attacked by some Thracians in Perseus ' army.

Nevertheless, some argue that the loss was actually due to a failure of command on the part of Perseus and the peculiar stance of the Companion cavalry, who did not engage the enemy.

He next turned to two important sets of pictures, The Briar Rose and The Story of Perseus, though these were not completed for some years.

Perseus might be from the ancient Greek verb, " πέρθειν " ( perthein ), “ to waste, ravage, sack, destroy ”, some form of which appears in Homeric epithets.

Although the legend of Perseus opens with the prophecy that he will kill his grandfather Acrisius, and his abandonment with his mother Danaë, the prophecy is only self-fulfilling in some variants.

* The Perseus Project contains some of Thomas North's translations

Observations of expansion ( as predicted by Ambartsumian ) were reported for some associations, e. g. by A. Blaauw for Perseus II, Scorpio-Centaurus, etc.

* The Perseus Project An electronic resource that provides quick information, but some of the information about the Propylaea was incorrect when the site was last checked.

Changes to the script and, on submission, some cuts to Perseus ' final battle with Calibos were made and the film secured the " A " certificate: " Those aged 5 and older admitted, but not recommended for children under 14 years of age ".

" Herodotus mentions the temple dedicated to Perseus and asserts that Chemmis was remarkable for the celebration of games in honor of that hero, after the manner of the Greeks, at which prizes were given ; as a matter of fact some representations are known of Nubians and people of Punt ( southern coastal Sudan and the Eritrean coast ) clambering up poles before the god Min.

# At the time of composing this table there appears some confusion in the internal linking of the Perseus project webpages, responsible for this split in two references.

In some stories of Perseus, after killing Medusa the hero used winged boots to transport her head to Mount Olympus.

In addition to this, many other individuals, including some associated with the KGB, have affirmed either the specific existence of Perseus or that there remain unidentified atomic spies on the Manhattan Project.

He sent Olympio with a delegation to Perseus to collect the money, and the treaty was concluded with some ceremony at Dium on the Thermaic Gulf.