The Greeks and heroes of Greek mythology

 




Gifts to the gods

Zeus: lightning, lightning, thunder

Hades: a helmet that made him invisible

Poseidon: a trident




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The Greeks and heroes of Greek mythology

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                              The weapon of Hermes and Athena In addition to being a strong and brave boy, he was also the son of Zeus and had the protection of the gods.  As soon as he set out, he was on his way,he saw coming to meet him a man wearing a winged helmet, winged sandals, and a golden wand with wings at one end: it was Hermes. "Your courage is not enough, Perseus," said the god. You need the right weapons. I can give you a diamond-edged sword, the only one capable of cut off the scales that protect Medusa's neck. But it is not enough. The goddess Athena then appeared before them in all their majesty. And he gave Perseus his bronze shield, polished in such a way that it reflected everything as a mirror.
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The Greeks and heroes of Greek mythology

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  The fight against jellyfish She was beheaded by Perseus, who then used her head as a weapon until he gave it to the goddess Athena to put on her shield, the aegis. Since classical Greek antiquity, the image of Medusa's head is represented in the contraption that drives away the evil known as Gorgoneion. The myth may have originated in the abolition of the cults of the goddess Moon caria and the Libyan Neith in which the priestesses wore masks of gorgons. Perseus passed through northwest Africa next to the Titan Atlas, who was there holding the sky, and transformed it into stone. Similarly, the corals of the Red Sea were said to have formed from the blood of Medusa that splashed the algae when Perseus left the petrifying head by the beach during his brief stay in Ethiopia, where he saved and married the beautiful Princess Andromeda.
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