CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sea Monster, Acrisius, Serifos
25 Aug 2016
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Seriphos: dictys and king polydectes: they float to island of seriphos and they were found by a fisherman, dictys (means. Dictys had a brother who was king of the island, polydectes, wanted to marry. Danae but she didn"t like him: as perseus grew up, he protected his mother from polydectes" advantage. Quest (hermes and athena as helpers) to get medusa"s head: monsters. Graeae had to face three sisters of old women, have one tooth and one eye between them. Perseus need to get info where he will find certain nymph who will give him stuff he needs for quest. So he snatched their one eye and tooth and said will give back if they give him the info, thus, they give it to him. Nymphs: gave him winged sandals, cap of invisibility, kibisis (pouch like. Hermoine"s bag that you can put as much stuff in there and still fit). Hermes gave him a scimitar - a sharp curved sword.
