The Story of Perseus & Medusa... kinda - Greek Mythology Explained

### Question

"Hey, ever heard that story about a plucky young boy who goes on adventures, kills monsters, marries a princes, and becomes a king or something?"

**The Story of Perseus & Medusa... kinda - Greek Mythology Explained** is the 3rd episode of Jake Doubleyoo's series Greek Mythology and the 3rd episode of his Mythologies series overall.

## Synopsis

*I hope you enjoy my retelling of the adventures of the most famous Greek hero who isn't Heracles.*

## Plot

After asking his normal question of the episode this time having to do with adventures Jake Doubleyoo gets started on the episode.

A guy named Acricius had 2 dreams in life, 1. having a male heir to his thrown and 2. not being murdered and he only accomplished one of those making him frustrated. So he went to an oracle who told him that he will not have a son but his daughter will have a grandson who will be an heir to his thrown after he kills him. Acricius briefly blamed his monkey's paw for this before throwing his daughter Danae down a hole to prevent her from reproducing. However Zeus came by and detected Danae and after liquidating and re-solidifying himself him and Danae got busy and 9 months later Acricius heard baby noises. After seeing the child Acricius figured the only person who would go into a deep hole just to get busy with a lady would have to be a horny god. So instead of killing child and risk being murdered himself he threw his daughter and grandson in a box into the ocean hoping they would drown and it would be Poseidon's fault.

Fortunately, Zeus appeared and helped them out sending them to an island where Perseus and his mother were raised by a fisherman named Dictys. However Dictys had a brother named Polydectes and he was in love with Danae but she rejected him and when Polydectes went running when Perseus came to his mother's rescue. So it was obvious to Polydectes that he needed to get rid of Perseus and so set up a party and told them he was getting married to a woman named "Not Perseus' Mom" and so his rich friends gave him gifts. Perseus apologized to Polydectes for not having an expensive gift because he was raised by a poor man who just so happened to be Polydectes brother. Polydectes told him there was no hard feelings as long as he went on a quest to retrieve Medusa's head for him in which secretly Polydectes hoped he wouldn't come back.

Nobody then asked who Medusa was and so Jake explained she was a beautiful women with snake hair who Athena caught banging Poseidon in her temple. So as punishment Athena turned Medusa so ugly that any man who looks at her turns to stone immediately so Medua went back to live with her sisters Stheno and Euryale where they sold lawn ornaments made from former human beings. Perseus on his way to his quest was briefly interrupted by his half sister Athena and his half brother Hermes who informed him that their father Zeus wanted Perseus to go on a few side missions before completing the main mission. Perseus was thankful for this and went on to go interrogate The Graeae sisters named Deino, Persis, and Pemphredo who had to share certain body parts between them like their eye and their teeth. So while the 3 were trading turns with the eye Perseus swooped in and grabbed it and was immediately disgusted by it and after they told/put the information he needed into google maps he gave the eye back and left.

Using the information Perseus found the nymphs who gave Perseus a hat of invisibility and a bag, so after putting the hat on he snuck up on Medusa and her sisters and cut her head off and put it in the bag. However after killing her a Pegasus named Pegasus and a pig with wings named Chrysaor popped out of her head waking Stheno and Euryale up who tried to question Perseus but unfortunately for them he got out of there before he got in trouble. On his way back home Perseus detected a woman named Andromeda which Zeus was proud that his son had the same ability as him, Perseus then asked Andromeda if she wanted to get busy and she told him she would if she weren't about to get eaten by a sea serpent because her father king Cepheus made Perseus' uncle Poseidon mad. Perseus ignoring the Poseidon part asked Cepheus that if he killed the sea serpent if he could marry Andromeda and he agreed and Perseus easily killed the sea serpent gaining him Andromeda's hand in marriage. Perseus when back home with his wife and gave Polydectes the gift of Medusa's head unintentionally killing him meaning that Dictys was now king meaning Perseus' problems were now solved. So Perseus joined an ultimate frisbee team where his grandfather was relaxing and unintentionally killed him with a frisbee as prophesied causing his grandfather to blame the monkey's paw before he died.

## Characters

* Acricius(debut; death)
* Unnamed Oracle(debut)
* Danae(debut)
* Zeus
* Perseus(debut)
* Poseidon(mentioned; and backstory)
* Dictys(debut)
* Polydectes(debut; death)
* Medusa(debut; death)
* Nobody(debut)
* Athena(backstory and briefly in main story)
* Sytheno(debut)
* Euryale(debut)
* Deino(debut)
* Persis(debut)
* Pemphrido(debut)
* Pegasus(debut)
* Chrysaor(debut)
* Andromeda(debut)
* Cepheus(debut)
* Unnamed Soccer Players(debut)
* Unnamed Soccer Viewers(debut)