The Perseus Myth One day I'll be a REAL boy, and I'll have actual content. In the meantime? Perseus is the product of one of Zeus' many affairs. His grandfather, the king, thought Perseus would kill him, so he locked him in a box and threw him into the ocean with his mom. They lived. He talked himself into a corner and had to go get Medusa's head. Fortunately, the Gods liked him, and so with their help, he took her down. Then as he was flying back to his home, he saw a lady chained to a rock, and he used the gorgon's head to save her from a sea monster, because really, who doesn't have a thing for ladies chained to rocks? Anyway, when he got home, he turned the little snot who made him go on the quest into stone with Medusa's head. And then he went back to the kingdom of his grandfather, and convinced him that he was actually an okay guy. Unfortunately, he killed him by accident anyway. Oops!