Perseus
The Hunt For Medusa’s Head
By: Emily, Mary and Meghan
Synopis - Meghan Detra
Dictys the fisherman finds Perseus and his mom
Synopsis - Meghan Detra
Perseus kills the king by turning him to stone
Main characters/ events- Meghan
Perseus - main Hero
Andromeda - Wife of Perseus
Danae - Mother of Perseus
Polydectes - Evil King who wants Danae to marry him
Dictys - Fisherman who saves Danae and Perseus
Athena - Goddess of wisdom, helps Perseus
Acrisius - Grandfather of Perseus, killed by Perseus
Athena and Perseus
Main Characters/Events - Meghan Detra
Medusa - Only mortal gorgon, slain by Perseus
Zeus - God of the sky and ruler of Olympus, father of Perseus
Hades/Hermes/Poseidon/Graeae - Greek Gods and mystical beings that helped Perseus throughout the book
Medusa
Zeus
Hades
Modern Connection
Perseus The Hunt For Medusa’s Head is like the Disney movie Tangled because characters from both the myth and the movie are locked in a tower.
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Modern Connection continued
Danae is Perseus’ mother, who in the beginning of the book is locked away in a tower by her father, King Acrisius. He locked her away because an oracle had told him that he would die at the fault of his grandchild. King Acrisius tried to cheat his own death by locking his daughter Danae in a tower, only letting himself and other women in to see her, preventing her from meeting any men and barring a child.
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King Acrisius
Danae
Modern Connection continued
Rapunzel is a princess in the Disney production Tangled, who is locked in a tower by her so called mother (she was stolen by this woman when she was a baby). Gothel locked her away because Rapunzel had hair that was magic. With the sing of a song, Rapunzel’s hair glows a bright yellow, which heals wounds and keeps Gothel, her mother, young- which is the reason Rapunzel is locked away.
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Rapunzel
Gothel
Modern Connection continued
The two female characters share more in common than just being locked away in a tower, they also both were locked up by their parents to prevent them from running away or finding love. Both of the character’s parents hide away their children for their good, and not the child’s. Gothel does it to stay young and King Acrisius does it to stay alive for as long as he can. But being locked away didn’t stop the girls, Rapunzel and Danae both fell in love with men who snuck into their towers.
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Danae and Perseus
Video
Mary
Works Cited
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-we-can-learn-from-disneys-tangled
http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Mother_Gothel
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Works cited and pictures with captions- Mary