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Perseus, bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, 1545–54; in the &elipsis; [Credit: Alinari/Art Resource, New York]In
Greek mythology, the slayer of the
Gorgon Medusa. He was the son of
Zeus and
Danaë.
His grandfather had him thrown into the sea in a chest with his mother as an infant because of a prophecy that Perseus would kill him. Perseus and his mother survived, and as a young man Perseus set out to gain the head of Medusa. On his way home he rescued the Ethiopian princess Andromeda from a sea monster, and she became his wife. When he took his mother back to her native Argos, he threw a discus that accidentally killed his grandfather, thus fulfilling the prophecy.
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