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Perseus

hero earth Greek corroborated · 4

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #382 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
8 – 2020
Historical notes
Featured in Ovid's Metamorphoses and earlier epic cycles.

Relationships

co occurs with
Athena, Nereids, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Cronus, Hercules, Pleione, Zeus
enemy of
Phineus, sea‑monster, Atlas, Medusa, Poseidon, Gorgons
consort of
Andromeda
allied with
Andromeda, Hermes
manifests as
Constellation Perseus
syncretized with
Pherse

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Legendary creature
  2. Medusa
  3. Atlas (Marvel Comics)
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Andromeda (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Perseus, returning from having slain the Gorgon, found her, slew the monster, set her free, and married her”

#44061 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“When Perseus neared his location after slaying Medusa, Atlas tried to warn Perseus to not take the apples of the Hesperides only for Perseus to use Medusa's head to turn him to stone.”

#45200 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free

“Through many of her iterations, Medusa pushes back against a story that seeks to place the male, Perseus, at its center, blameless and heroic.”

#46107 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free