Historiae Romanorum

Polydectes

The king of the island of Seriphos.  He desired to marry Danae, the daughter of Acrisius, but he feared that her son Perseus would interfere.  He therefore decided to send Perseus on a quest to kill Medusa, the lone mortal of the Gorgons.  Polydectes felt certain that his was a quest he surely would not survive.

Perseus, however, prevailed and returned to Seriphos.  There, he found that Polydectes had forced his mother into hiding.  Using the head of Medusa, Perseus turned Polydectes and his comrades to stone.

Source(s):

1. Apollodorus.  Bibliotece.

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