Friday, March 12, 2010

Andromeda and The Clash of the Titans


The story starts with Acrisus king of Argos, being mad at his daughter Denae, and puts her and her infant son in a wooden box and sends them into the sea. The film Clash of the Titans retells the story of Perseus, Andromeda, and Cassiopeia, but makes a few changes (notably in the greek myth Cassiopeia boasts that her daughter is more beautiful than the Sea nymph named Thetis, but in the movie she is portraid as a godess instead of a Sea nymph. In the original greek myth Andromeda was a princess of Ethiopia, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. In the myth Thetis was a Nereid, but also the future mother of Achilles. Achilles was trained by Chiron who was a centaur. Thetis was married off to a mortal by the name of Peleus for fear her son would dethrone Zeus. In the movie Andromeda and Perseus meet and fall in love after he saves her soul from the enslavement of Thetis' hideous son, Calibos, whereas in the myth, they simply meet as Perseus returns home from having slain Medusa. In the movie Calibos - the spoiled son of Thetis, the goddess of the Sea - was a handsome young man destined to marry Princess Andromeda, the daughter of Queen Cassiopeia; thus, one day, he would become ruler of the rich city of Joppa and eventually all of Phoenicia. Zeus entrusted Calibos to care for the Wells of the Moon; Calibos instead hunted, trapped and killed everything that lived there, including Zeus’ sacred herd of flying horses, leaving only the stallion Pegasus. As punishment, Zeus transforms Calibos into a monster; thus he is shunned and forced to live as an outcast in the swamps and marshes. Calibos is an invented character for the movie. Thetis, furious at her son's fate, vows that if Calibos cannot marry Andromeda, then no other man will either. In the film, the monster is called a Kraken, but in greek mythology he is known as Cetus, although it is depicted as a lizardlike creature rather than a squid or a peaceful whale; and combining two elements of the myth, Perseus defeats the sea monster by showing it Medussa's face, turning the monster into stone. Andromeda is depicted as being strong-willed and independent, whereas in the stories she is only really mentioned as being the princess whom Perseus saves from the sea monster. In the film Zeus who is the father of Perseus and heracles is upset that Acrisus sent off his son into the sea.So he orders the Kraken to destroy Argos. Zeus is also known as Jupiter. Andromeda was a princess of Ethiopia, daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia.
Andromeda followed her husband to Tiryns in Argos, and together they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perseides, Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon, and one daughter, Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

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