Perseus

To grapple with and go to meet such a monster is the work of a truly mad man, or of one exceedingly brave and winged, a Perseus or a Bellerophon.

Does not Perseus seem really to fly over the city?

Or do you think you will hear some praise of yourselves and a public hymn of the city — about Perseus and Heracles and Apollo's trident and the oracles that were given, and how you are Greeks and Argives and even better, and have for your founders heroes and demigods, or rather Titans?

Khemmis from his mother before he came to Egypt.

and they traced descent from these down to Perseus.

In this city is a square temple of Perseus son of Danae, in a grove of palm trees.

Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself - not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Peirithoos, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ankled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.

For Hera darted down from the high summit of Olympus, and went in haste to Achaean Argos where she knew that the noble wife of Sthenelos son of Perseus then was.

Perseus the Macedonian King, clearing himself to Martius from the charge of screening those, who had attempted the life of Eumenes;

The same rule also being observed against King Perseus, it must be understood, as including the adherents during all the time that war with those princes continued;

For Publius Vatinius, the grandfather of this youth, as he was coming to Rome by night from the prefecture of Reate, was told by two young men with white horses that king Perseus had that day been captured;

From this to the expedition of Perseus, when Glaucus too established the Isthmian games in honour of Melicertes, fifteen years.

Under Acrisius were the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia, and the arrival of Ion at Athens, and the second Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and of Dionysus, and Orpheus and Musaeus.

Moses, then, is shown to be earlier than the deification of Dionysus by six hundred and four years, if indeed Dionysus was made a god in the thirty-second year of the reign of Perseus, as Apollodorus says in his Chronicles.

on the surrounding base of the shield’s rim, Perseus the throat-cutter, over the sea with winged sandals, was holding the Gorgon’s body, with Hermes, Zeus’ messenger, the rustic son of Maia.

the other, Zeus, who came to wed the bride sprung from Perseus;

What mortal has not heard of the one who shared a wife with Zeus, Amphitryon of Argos, whom once Alcaeus, son of Perseus, begot, Amphitryon the father of Heracles?

There, too, was the son of rich-haired Danae, the horseman Perseus:

Perseus himself, the son of Danae, was at full stretch, like one who hurries and shudders with horror.

And when Perseus cut off her head, there sprang forth great Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus who is so called because he was born near the springs of Ocean;

Searching into the meaning of the oracle, they found, first, that Argos belonged to them by right of their being next of kin, for after the death of Eurystheus they were the sole survivors of Perseus’ line;

but all chroniclers agree that Heracles was later by four generations than Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae, and that Busiris lived more than two hundred years earlier than Perseus.

in Thebes the horseman Iolaus has his honor, and Perseus in Argos, and the spearman Castor together with Polydeuces by the streams of Eurotas.

Long indeed is the story of Perseus and the Gorgon Medusa, and many are the cities founded in Egypt by the devising of Epaphus.

Do we not know that the former are descendants of Hercules and the latter of Achaemenes, and that the line of Hercules and the line of Achaemenes go back to Perseus, son of Zeus?

It would be long to review also those whom you have buried among the stars and boldly attended upon as gods.

this Cambyses belonged to the stock of the Persidae, and the Persidae derive their name from Perseus.