After reaching the amphitheater in Joppa, Perseus collapses from exhaustion. Weakened by his struggle, he sends Bubo to rescue Pegasus from Calibos' henchmen. Alone, Perseus overcomes the scorpions and kills Calibos. Calibos and the scorpions attack and kill Perseus's remaining escorts. As Perseus and his party set to return, Calibos enters their camp and punctures the cloak carrying Medusa's head, causing her blood to spill and produce three giant scorpions. However, the shield is dissolved by her caustic blood. At the Gorgon's lair, Perseus uses the reflective underside of his shield to deceive Medusa, decapitate her, and collect her head. Perseus fights and kills Medusa's guardian, a two-headed dog named Dioskilos. On the Gorgon's island, the three soldiers travelling with Perseus are killed. The next day, the group continues on their journey while Andromeda and Ammon return to Joppa. Medusa lives on an island in the River Styx at the edge of the Underworld. By taking their magic eye, Perseus forces them to reveal that the only way to defeat the Kraken is by using the head of the gorgon Medusa, whose gaze can turn any living thing into stone. Instead, she orders Hephaestus to build a mechanical replica that leads Perseus, Andromeda, Ammon, Thallo and some soldiers to the Stygian Witches. Zeus commands Athena to give Perseus her owl Bubo, but she refuses. However, Pegasus is captured by Calibos and his men. Perseus seeks a way to defeat the Kraken. Thetis, using the statue's head to speak through, declares that Cassiopeia will pay for her boasting and for the injury inflicted on Calibos and demands Andromeda be sacrificed to the Kraken on pain of Joppa's destruction. At the wedding in Thetis' temple, Cassiopeia declares that Andromeda's beauty is greater than Thetis' an earthquake starts, causing the head of the statue of Thetis to break off and crash to the floor. Finding that Thetis cannot act against Perseus, Calibos instead demands that she take vengeance on Joppa. The next morning, Perseus presents himself as a suitor and correctly answers the riddle - that answer being the ring given to Calibos by his mother which is still attached to the amputated hand - winning Andromeda's hand in marriage. In the ensuing fight, Calibos loses his left hand, and Perseus loses his helmet. Perseus is discovered and nearly killed by Calibos. After capturing Pegasus, Perseus follows Calibos's giant vulture carrying off Andromeda's spirit during her sleep to learn the next riddle. Zeus sends Perseus a god-crafted helmet from Athena which makes its wearer invisible, a magical sword from Aphrodite, and a shield from Hera. Perseus learns that Andromeda is under a curse and cannot marry unless her suitor successfully answers a riddle concocted by Calibos. In revenge, Thetis transports an adult Perseus to an abandoned amphitheater in Joppa, where he befriends a soldier, Thallo, and an elderly poet named Ammon. Danaë and Perseus safely float to the island of Seriphos, where Perseus grows to adulthood.Ĭalibos, the spoiled son of the sea goddess Thetis, is betrothed to Princess Andromeda, daughter of Queen Cassiopeia of Joppa but for committing several atrocities against Zeus, including destroying Zeus' sacred flying horses (except for Pegasus), Calibos is transformed into a deformed, satyr-like creature. In retribution, Zeus kills Acrisius and orders Poseidon to release the last of the Titans, a gigantic sea monster called the Kraken, to destroy Argos. When the god Zeus impregnates Danaë, Acrisius banishes her and her newborn son Perseus to sea in a wooden chest.

King Acrisius of Argos imprisons his daughter Danaë, trying to prevent a prophecy that her child will bring about his demise. Further information: Andromeda (mythology)

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