theseus & perseus

	Theseus Theseus, a renowned warrior and Athenian hero, is best known for killing the Minotaur, a ferocious half-man half-bull who lived beneath the palace of King Minos on Crete. Theseus hid himself among a batch of Athenian youths to be sacrificed to the beast and then bravely slew it, finding his way out of the labyrinth by following a thread given to him by Minos’ daughter, Ariadne. Sadly, he forgot to put up a white sail on his return to Athens, as he’d promised his father, King Aegis. Seeing a black sail, and assuming Theseus was dead, Aegis threw himself off the cliffs, giving name to the Aegean Sea. Perseus Perseus means ‘destroyer’ and this mythical hero and son of Zeus lived up to his name. King Polydectes, the unwelcome suitor of his mother, sent him on a seemingly deadly mission to bring back the head of the Medusa, the most fearsome of the three Gorgon sisters who could turn men to stone with her gaze. But, wearing an invisibility cap and winged flying shoes, Perseus crept up on the Medusa using only her reflection in his shield. Then he cut off her head and threw it in a bag. Returning home to rescue his mother, he used the head to turn Polydectes and all his followers to stone.