Perseus & the Crazy Things that Emerge When You Behead a Gorgon
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Infanticide - The Newborn
King achrisius knows he's in big trouble with this new baby. Infanticide is considered one of the biggest nonos, along with cannibalism and killing your parents. The gods have some standards, but they don't apply to themselves. He locks the baby and danae in a wooden chest and sends them out to sea. Luckily for the mother and son, danae and perseus wash up on the shores of the island of seraphos. They're found by a fisherman named dictus who raises Perseus as if he were his own son. Dictus happens to also be the brother of polydectes, who is the king of
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