But Phineas, the brother of Kipheas, conspired against Perseus, because Kipheas had promised Andromeda his wife. The two men exchanged vows that they would abide by the agreement, Perseus confronted the whale, killed it and released Andromeda. When Perseus saw her, he fell in love with her and promised Cepheus to kill the whale, on the condition that the king give his consent to this marriage, in case, of course, that Perseus saves her. The Nereids became angry, and Poseidon, who shared their anger, flooded the country as punishment and sent a whale.īecause Ammon reasoned that the country would be saved from disaster if the daughter of Cassiopeia Andromeda was given to the whale north, Kipheas was forced by the Ethiopians to do so and tied his daughter to a rock. When Perseus arrived in Ancient Aethiopia, where Kipheas reigned, he found his daughter Andromeda tied up, north of a sea whale, as a punishment of the Nereids to their mother Cassiepeia and Kipheas’s wife, who competed with them in beauty and boasted that she was of all. The birth of her children took place at the time of her death caused by Perseus, the son of Zeus and Danae. With her gaze she petrified anyone who dared to look at her, even the gods avoided her, except Poseidon, who joined her and left her pregnant. The monster had bronze arms and golden wings, with which he flew, sparkling eyes and a penetrating gaze. Medusa was daughter of Forkos and Kitos, who were brothers to each other, or Gorgonas and Kitos, again brothers to each other, she had the same face as her sisters: snakes were wrapped around her head, large teeth resembling wild boars protruded from her mouth. On the contrary, in Ovid’s work, “Metamorphoses”, a more complete description is given both of the beheading of the Gorgon by Perseus and of its appearance. In Theogony there is a reference to the moment of Medusa’s death at the hands of Perseus, however there is no extensive reference to her face. In addition, Medusa became better known than her two sisters through the story of her death. The three Mermaids of Greek mythology, according to Hesiod, “lived far away, at the end of the night across the Atlantic Ocean, where the Hesperides lived.” Unlike Stheno and Evryali who were immortal, Medusa was mortal. She had a ghastly face that turned anyone who looked at it to stone, a dragon body and snakes for hair It states that the three sisters, Stheno, Evryali and Medusa, were the children of Forkeas and Cetos.
The most recent myth of the mythological monster of Medusa and the Mermaids is that of Hesiod, in his work Theogony.
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