#Perseus and andromeda

[haliaiii]

Percy and Annabeth except they’re Perseus and Andromeda

[justaz]

Currently loosing my mind thinking about Percy and Annabeth being Perseus and Andromeda reincarnated and them being actual Greek soulmates that find each other in every life, the perfect match……..that’s why Aphrodite was so invested in their love life in particular because Persephone let it slip at a party on Olympus that Perseus and Andromeda went for their third life to reach the Isle of the Blessed and that’s why their lives have been so hard and traumatic in comparison to other demigods’ lives because this is their final trial before eternal paradise

[sarafangirlart]

So even back then ppl were really pushing the Perseus/Andromeda and Dionysus/Ariadne parallels

[joana-de-artes]

Perseus and Andromeda, very young and very early into their happy marriage

I'm really happy with Andromeda's design, I think she turned out very cute! She's based on the depictions of Nubians in ancient Egyptian artwork

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles Napier Kennedy (French, 1852-1898) Perseus and Andromeda, 1890

[aliciavance4228]

On short:

[margaretkart]

I find comfort in knowing that, no matter how much others try to keep them apart, Perseus and Andromeda have been immortalized in the stars, side by side for eternity. Their story has endured through time, inspiring and touching countless hearts.

[maggie44paint]

Perseus haters try to read the original myths, challenge impossible

Just to be clear, no hate towards ppl who like the Ovid retelling, its completely okay to like Medusa with a tragic story (remember that Medusa was born a monster in the og greek myth tho!) , but it becomes a huge problem when you start to see it as the original myth and demonize Perseus who just wanted to save his mother Danaë from a literal assaulter.

[scuorge10]

Andromeda and Perseus

[tchai-castor]

Drawing of Andromeda and Perseus

I tried using the old depiction of Medusa, if I were to draw it again, I think I'll use a different color palette

Perseus is based on the typical Minoan style.

For Andromeda, I decided that I wanted to show off some fashion from the region, instead of the traditional nude. However I didn't want to depict her wearing her full royal garb, so I settled on a more sober dress that would've been considered more mainstream. I was hesitating a bit between Ethiopian and Nubian (Kerma) influences, so I decided to base her hair on a modern traditional hairstyle from Ethiopia, as a reference to the ancient namesake. I'll draw a version later of Andromeda in full royal garb.

[thefugitivesaint]

Gerda Wegener (1886-1940), 'Persée délivre Andromède', ''Le Sourire'', July 6, 1933 Source

[sarafangirlart]

Whoever came up with the idea to have Perseus sharing a flying sandal with Andromeda I need to kiss you in the mouth shake your hand

Perseus (1973) short film, available on YouTube.

[thebeautifulbook]

TALES OF TROY AND GREECE by Andrew Lang (London: Longmans, Green, 1907). 17 illustrations by Henry Justice Ford.

source

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Fresco of the myth of Perseus and Andromeda, 1st century BC The imperial villa at Boscotrecase, near Pompeii Met Museum, NY (20.192.16)

[aliciavance4228]

I need you guys to understand that asking a woman in marriage back in the ancient times was also a way of not denigrating her image.

I've seen lots of people on the Internet claiming that Perseus is selfish for asking Andromeda's father for permission in order to marry her (*ahem* Crown of Serpents *ahem*), or deciding to make her his bride the moment he saw her. What a lot of them don't seem to get though is that back then a woman's virginity before marriage was considered very important, and having an affair with a woman without being married to her or receiving the father's approval first was unsafe (due to sexist and misogynistic reasons).

By asking for Andromeda's hand in marriage, Perseus indirectly states that he doesn't see her as lesser (concubine, sex slave, mistress etc.) and he doesn't want to bring her shame but to give her a honorable social status. It's even more obivious in Euripides' Andromeda where Andromeda straight-up tells him that he can have her either as a servant, wife or slave, to which Perseus assures her that he never "abused the unfortunate in their adversity".

Compare his attitude with Achilles', who not only that murdered Briseis' family but he never considered marrying her (and escaping her from the status of a slave by default) despite of how much he claimed to love her at one point.

The most deranging part is that I've seen this type of mindset even in works written hundreds of years later, such as Shakespeare's. A lot of people criticize Romeo to the point where they call him a predator or a pedo, despite the fact that he's implied to be not much older than Juliet (which yes, roughly put it means that both of them were dumb horny teenagers...) AND that Romeo asked Juliet to marry him before sleeping with her. Meanwhile in Hamlet the eponym character is emotionally and verbally abusive towards Ophelia, constantly making sexual remarks to her, being uncapable of giving her the minimum of respect and human decency, rushing into her room at one point and indirectly contributing to her suicide after killing her father. But because he is nowdays conveniently labeled as "the original emo" his relationship with Ophelia is more oftenly excused.

Not sure if the main problem is the lack of Media Literacy, the romanticization of abusive relationships to the detriment of healthier ones for aesthetical purposes, BookTok brainrot or honestly just all of these combined.

[softlytowardthesun]

I’m thinking about Danaë, Perseus, and Andromeda.

Danaë was a princess, once. Her happy life was upended the day her father caught wind of a prophecy that his grandchild would be his undoing. She was imprisoned in her own home, and when her son was born, she and the baby were banished and left for dead. Yet Danaë powered through, as heroes are known to do in these types of stories. This single mother in a strange land raised her son with pride — not hubris, but true, righteous pride. They have no need of gods or monsters or the kingdom that cast them out; all mother and son need are each other.

Perseus’s call to adventure begins when yet another evil king decides to treat Danaë as an object instead of a person. Polydectes will force Danaë to marry him unless Perseus can cross the world and return with the head of the Gorgon Medusa. Perseus is in no place to protest, not when the truest hero he’s ever known is counting on him. This is not a quest for glory, but piety: the duty a child owes to their parent.

In his travels, Perseus meets Andromeda, chained to a cliffside and awaiting her grim fate. She too, has a story of a mother and child. Queen Cassiopeia foolishly offended a long list of sea gods and their kingdom will be washed away unless the gods exact their price. Cassiopeia did the offending; it should be her on the cliff. But Andromeda has to suffer for the sins of her family, just like Perseus. He chose to risk his life for his mother; Andromeda had her fate chosen for her.

Maybe Andromeda tried to talk herself into thinking her death would mean something. She’s grown up as a princess, where each generation of the dynasty is meant to be in unbroken continuity with the generation before. The crown she is presumed to wear weighs down any hopes for her own life. If Cassiopeia tells her to die, it is her duty and honor as the child to obey. Secretly, she prays that her death will mean something for her mother — that the next child she has will be granted the freedom of choice Andromeda herself never knew.

But Perseus, raised by a mother worthy of her role, knows that is bullshit. He knows Andromeda deserves better than this, and he breaks the cycle by destroying the monster and breaking her chains, will of Poseidon be damned. And when Cassiopeia reunites with her child, it’s clear she has learned nothing. She immediately tries to force Andromeda into an unhappy marriage - just like what Polydectes means to do to Danaë.

Now Andromeda and Perseus are both angry. She is ready to let her so-called family crumble. She shields her eyes, and lets her suitor and her mother meet the Gorgon’s eyes. She walks away from the stone to which she was chained, into a new life of her making.

The young couple returns to Seriphos. Perseus saves Danaë from the dread altar. A worthy king claims the throne, and in a remarkable stroke of luck for Greek mythology, Perseus kills his evil grandfather without technically violating Ancient Greece’s taboos on kin-slaying. Andromeda and Perseus ascend to the throne of Mycenae, and have that rarest thing in any myth: a happily ever after.

Andromeda gets a husband and a crown, sure, but she also gets Danaë. Danaë is everything Cassiopeia wasn’t: humble, resilient, and loving. She raised Perseus well, and she teaches Andromeda how to stand tall against monsters: not the sea beast, but the creatures that would rather offer up their own children than admit that they were in the wrong.