So it is that Perseus finds himself agreeing to find and defeat the Gorgon - a monster called Medusa - a task that Polydectes believes to be impossible, since the Oracle has also prophesied that ...

Myths include King Midas, Perseus, Medusa, Persephone and Hades ... that can be applied to any of the myths. The text of each myth is also available to download from the relevant page.

A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.

Taylor Swift might have given a nod to a 3,000-year-old Medusa myth Taylor Swift ... into stone by a mere glance before she was slain by Perseus. The Medusa imagery could represent empowerment ...