The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
Son of → Zeus, who united with Danae in the form of a golden rain.
Perseus was charged by Polydektes, king of Seriphos, to bring him the head of the → Gorgon Medusa, whose glance turned all those who met it to stone. The → Nymphs gave him winged sandals and a cap which conferred invisibility, and from the gods he received a sickleshaped sword with which he struck off the gorgon’s head. On the way back to Seriphos, he rescued Andromeda from a sea-monster.
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