The myth of Perseus
Perseus was the son of Zeus and Danaë. the grandfather of Perseus, Acrisios king of Argos, had once heard of an oracle that he would be killed by the son of his daughter. Because of that he locked Danaë up in a dungeon deep in the ground, but Zeys went to here in the shape of golden rain and made a baby with her. When Acrisios noticed that, he locked Danaë and her child up in a box and threw them into sea. But, again, Zeus saved them and braught them to the friendly king of Seriphos. He accepted them friendly and took care of them.
When Perseus was grown up he got argueing with the king, because the wanted to marry his mother. But the king feared him. Because of that he commanded Perseus to get the head of Medusa. She was one of the three Gorgons, feathered women with snake hair. Everyone feared them; the ones that looked them in the eyes turned into stone.
Athena and Hermes guided Perseus towards Medusa and he got winged shoes, a sack and he helmet, wich could make him invisble. But first he had to go along the house of the Graini, three ancient women who new the secret to the place of the Gorgons. They had for all of them only one eye and one tooth, wich they used in turn. Perseus grabbed the eye and would not give it back until he knew how to pass. He went to the Gorgons and approached them. With the shield of Athena he didn't have to look straight into the eyes of Medusa. Than he cut off the head of Medusa. On his way back home he came across the beautifull Andromeda, who was chained to a rock and left to be eaten up by a seamonster. Perseus waited besides her and when the monster appeared he chopped his head off. Her joyfull parents gave Andromeda to Perseus as his wife. Perseus went home and saved his mother by turning the king and his army into stone with the head of Medusa.
Perseus gave the Gorgon's head to Athena, who placed it on her shield, and Perseus went with his mother to Argos. Later, as Perseus threw the discus in an Athletic contest, it severed and fell into the public, accidantily killing his grandfather Acrisios and thus the oracle became truth.
After his own death Perseus was taken into the sky by his father Zeus.