Reading Notes: Ovid's Metamorphoses - Perseus and Andromeda Reading B

 Ovid's Metamorphoses: Perseus and Andromeda

  • Perseus is a son of Zeus and a mortal woman
  • He borrowed winged shoes from Hermes before taking off on his journey, during which he defeated Medusa, turned the Titan Atlas into a mountain, defeated a sea monster, and found himself a wife
  • While journeying back after cutting off Medusa's head, Perseus came across the land of Atlas and asked if he could rest on the land
    • The Titan remembered a prophecy that said his tree would be stripped of the gold it possessed by a son of Jupiter (Zeus)
    • He refused to let Perseus stay and so Perseus direct Medusa's head at the massive Titan, who subsequently turned to stone and sprouted trees, becoming a mountain
  • After his encounter with Atlas, Perseus moves on and comes across Andromeda, who is tied to a rock to be sacrificed to a sea monster because her mom was cocky about how hot she was
  • Perseus promises to defeat the sea monster and asks for Andromeda's hand in marriage, which her parents quickly grant along with the promise of a kingdom

The Andromeda Galaxy (which is quite fitting of a fair damsel in distress with how pretty it is, I think)

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