![]() ![]() When Perseus finds her chained to a rock, he frees her, kills her fiancé, and rapes her. ![]() Meanwhile, beautiful Andromeda offers herself up as a sacrifice to appease the gods after a jilted suitor’s father blames her for a crop-destroying storm. ![]() Medusa, a thoughtful leader of a community of women who have fled male violence, saves Perseus from a snake bite, but rejects his marriage offer, spurring Perseus to kill her instead. She washes ashore in Seriphos and spends the next 18 years telling her son, Perseus, that he’s the son of Zeus (in fact, his father was a baker who broke into Akrisios’s palace where Danae was cloistered). Danae is banished from Argos by her father, King Akrisios, after she becomes pregnant, thanks to a prophecy that a grandson would cause Akrisios’s death. Heywood ( Daughters of Sparta) adds to the wave of feminist retellings of the classics with a vivid if unbalanced account of the Perseus myth. ![]()
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