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The Quest of Medusa's Head

SERIFOS (Island) KYKLADES
From the book:
Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin
Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children

T h e B a l d w i n P r o j e c t
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Magnes

Son of Aeolus, father of Dictys and Polydectes.

Magnes: Perseus Encyclopedia
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Heleius

Heleius, (Heleios), a son of Perseus and Andromeda, who joined Amphitryon in the war against the Teleboans, and received from him the islands of the Taphians. (Apollod. ii. 4.5, 7; Schol. ad Hom. Il. xix. 116; Strab. viii. p. 363, where he is called Elios.)

A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith)
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Polydectes

(Poludektes). The son of Magnes, king of the island of Seriphus. He attempted to compel Danae to marry him, but was turned into a stone by her son Perseus by the sight of the head of Medusa.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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Polydectes: Perseus Lookup Tool, text search
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Polydektes: Perseus Lookup Tool, text search
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Polydectes: Perseus Encyclopedia
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Dictys & Clymene

Dictys: Perseus Encyclopedia
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Clymene: Perseus Encyclopedia
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Dictys: Perseus Lookup Tool, text search
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