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     Once there was a king named Acrisius and he had a beautiful 

daughter named Danae. Then one day the oracle of Apollo told 

Acrisius 

that Danaes son would one day kill him,to prevent this Acrisius sent 

Danae to be locked up in a castle forever. Noone could enter the 

castle, 

the castle had no doors or entrances except one small window where 

Danae could look out. Danae would never be able to marry anybody 

or 

have children. Danae had no hope left she was locked up forever!

     Danae was very sad she could not stop crying about it. Until one 

day lightning struck and a man with a thunderbolt in his hand showed 

up at Danaes window. Danae was so sirprised she did not know what to 

say. Then the man said, "Yes, I am a god and I wish to make you 

mywife. I can make this dark prison a wonderful sunny land with many 

flowers." This god was Zeus, the god of all gods, the best one out of 

everybody else. As he said the horrible castle became very green with a 

lot of flowers, bushes, and trees.

     Since the castle was no longer a prison Acrisius saw light coming 

out of the castle and sent his men to tear down the walls to see what 

was happening. As the walls were tore down Acrisius saw Danae with 

a 

baby on her lap. Danae smiling with her son said, "I have named him 

Perseus." Acrisius was furious and sent Danae and her son in 

to sea in a large chest. By a miracle Danae and Persues made 

it safely to the island of Seriphos.In the island of Seriphos 

Polydectes was king and he thought Danae was the prettiest 

 women he had ever seen and wanted to marry her. The problem was 

that Danae did not want to. Perseus grew up in the island 

of Seriphos and became a very strong man. If it weren't for Perseus his 

mother would have had to marry King Polydectes by force, but Perseus 

was always there to protect her. So King Polydectes had a plan to get 

rid of Perseus so he could marry Danae. Polydectes would pretend to 

marry someone else and he would invite everybody that lived in the 

Island of Seriphos.

Perseus was very strong but also very poor. Since it was the Kings 

wedding everybody had to take a present. When the day of the wedding 

came Perseus had nomoney, King Polydectes was furious because he 

had shown up with no present. King Polydectes yelled and 

exclaimed at Perseus for not bringing a present and out anger Perseus 

yells, "Ill bring you any present you want!" and Polydectes replies   

bring me the head of gorgon Medusa!" Perseus was angry and was  

going to get the head of gorgon Medusa just to prove Polydecets 

wrong. gorgon Medusa was a woman who had been casted a spell on 

by Athena for having made love to Poseidon in Athenas temple, as 

punishment Athena turned Medusa's most treasured value which was 

her 

hair into snakes. Also every time anyone would look at her they would 

turn into stone. Perseus had to be careful going agaisnt Medusa because 

just by looking at her he could be finished, it would be very dangerous 

and risky. 

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