Sunday, July 5, 2009
Perseus III: How Perseus Slew The Gorgon
SO PERSEUS started on his journey, going dry-shod over land and sea; and his heart was high and joyful, for the winged sandals bore him each day a seven day's journey.And he went by Cythnus, and by Ceos, and the pleasant Cyclades to Attica; and past Athens, and Thebes, and the Copaic lake, and up the vale of Cephissus, and past the peaks of CEta and Pindus, and over the rich Thessalian plains, till the sunny hills of Greece were behind him, and before him were the wilds of the north. Then he passed the Thracian mountains, and many a barbarous tribe,...