Perseus Perseus was a great hero born of Denae and Zeus. The story of Perseus is that one day King Acrisius visited an oracle because he only had a daughter and he wanted a son. The oracle told him hat his daughter, Denae, would have a son, but the catch was that the son would kill King Acrisius. Acrisius grew angry and locked Denae in a tower with no way for anyone to reach her. One day Zeus saw her from Mount Olympus and visited her. He then made Denae pregnant with her baby boy. They named him Perseus. Perseus grew inside the tower and was raised by Denae.When Perseus was a man, he became a Greek hero. Perseus was a Greek hero because he saved Denae from marrying Polydectes, the evil king
