Polydectes

Family: Seriphus · Role: king · First appears: Fable 49

Life events

• Perseus turns Polydectes to stone using Medusa’s face.(Fable49 · 📍 Seriphus)
  • With: Perseus
  • “‘We will give thee a proof of the truth,’ says Perseus; ‘have a regard for your eyes, {all besides};’ and he makes the face of the king {become} stone, without blood, by means of the face of Medusa.”

Fable 49

• enemies with Perseus “Polydectes continues his hatred against Perseus, and treats his victories and triumphs over Medusa as mere fictions, on which Perseus turns him into stone.”
• with Perseus (Perseus turns Polydectes to stone.) “Polydectes continues his hatred against Perseus, and treats his victories and triumphs over Medusa as mere fictions, on which Perseus turns him into stone.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.