🌌Myth in painting

 Myth in painting

Perseus (ancient Greek: Περσεύς) is a hero of the ancient Greek mythology of the Argive cycle, the son of Danae and Zeus, the ancestor of Hercules.
The paintings illustrate the ancient myth about one of the hero's exploits: the liberation of Andromeda, the daughter of King Cepheus.
The girl's mother, Cassiopeia, angered the Nereids by praising her own beauty, and Poseidon, as punishment, sent a flood and a sea monster to the kingdom of Cepheus.
The soothsayers, on behalf of Amun, announced that the disasters would end only when Andromeda was given to the monster to be eaten. Cepheus had to obey.
Perseus fell in love with Andromeda at first sight and promised Cepheus to kill the sea monster on the condition that he would give him his daughter in marriage.
When the king took the oath, the hero waited for the monster to come ashore and either killed him in battle or showed him the head of the Gorgon Medusa, whose terrible gaze turns everyone into stone, which he had cut off earlier with a magic sword. Andromeda was freed.
The princess's fiancé Phineus plotted to get his bride back, but Perseus learned of this and took Medusa's head out of his bag, and the conspirators turned to stone.































Sources: Wikipedia, WikiArt, Livejournal.

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