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In Greek mythology , Perieres ( Ancient Greek :  ) was King of Messene , an ancient polis in southern Peloponnese . His parentage and offspring vary across ancient authors ; in most sources , however , he was a son of ___MASK36___ and Enarete , and husband of Gorgophone , daughter of the famous Perseus . According to John Tzetzes , Perieres was a son of Cynortas , King of Sparta , and father of Oebalus , who , in turn , became by Gorgophone father of Tyndareus and Icarius . The Bibliotheca mentions two different versions of Perieres ' lineage , without deciding between them : he could be a son of Cynortas , husband of Gorgophone and father of Tyndareus , Icarius , Aphareus and Leucippus , or he could be a son of ___MASK36___ and father of only two sons by Gorgophone , Aphareus and Leucippus . In this case Tyndareus and Icarius , along with Hippocoon and Arene , would be sons of Oebalus , son of another Perieres , son of Cynortas , their mother being the nymph Bateia . Finally , according to Pausanias , Gorgophone , the daughter of Perseus , was one of the first women who married twice . She first married Perieres , King of Messene , son of ___MASK36___ , and had by him sons Leucippus and Aphareus . After Perieres ' death she married Oebalus , king of Sparta , son of Cynortas , and had by him Tyndareus , Icarius and Arene . Finally , in Pausanias '' account , Hippocoon was Oebalus '' eldest natural son , his mother being Batea ( or , according to scholiasts on Euripides and Homer , Hippocoon ' s mother was called Nicostrate ) . In Greek mythology , Cretheus (" Krtheus ") was the king and founder of Iolcus , the son of ___MASK36___ ( son of ___MASK73___ ) and Enarete . His wives were Tyro and either Demodice or Biadice . With Tyro , he fathered ___MASK47___ , Pheres , and ___MASK15___ . He also had several daughters , namely Hippolyte , future wife of Acastus ( otherwise known as Astydameia ); Myrina , who married Thoas ; and an unnamed daughter , who became the mother of Asterius by Teutamus . In Greek mythology , Salmoneus was a son of ___MASK36___ and Enarete , and brother of Athamas , ___MASK38___ , Cretheus , Perieres , Deioneus , Canace , Alcyone , and Perimede . Salmoneus was the father of Tyro by his first wife Alcidice , the second one being Sidero . In Greek mythology , Alcyone (" Halkyón ") was the daughter of ___MASK36___ , either by Enarete or Aegiale . She married Ceyx , son of Eosphorus the Morning Star . Polis , plural poleis literally means city in Greek . It can also mean citizenship and body of citizens . In modern historiography , " polis " is normally used to indicate the ancient Greek city - states , like Classical Athens and its contemporaries , and thus is often translated as " city - state ". In Greek mythology , Athamas was a Boeotian king . He was a son of ___MASK36___ and Enarete , and sired several children by his first wife , the goddess Nephele , and his other wives Ino and Themisto . Nephele first bore to him the twins ___MASK93___ and Helle ; and also a third son , Makistos . He subsequently married Ino , daughter of Cadmus , with whom , he had two children : Learches and Melicertes . ___MASK65___ (" Zeús ", ; Modern , " Días " ) was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion , who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus . His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent ___MASK71___ . His mythologies and powers are similar , though not identical to those of the Indo - European deities such as Indra , ___MASK71___ , Perun , Thor , and Odin . Athens (" Athína " ) is the capital and largest city of Greece . Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world ' s oldest cities , with its recorded history spanning over 3 , 400 years , and its earliest human presence starting somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC . Classical Athens was a powerful city - state that emerged in conjunction with the seagoing development of the port of Piraeus , which had been a distinct city prior to its 5th century BC incorporation with Athens . A centre for the arts , learning and philosophy , home of ___MASK67___ ' s Academy and Aristotle ' s Lyceum , it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy , largely because of its cultural and political impact on the European continent , and in particular the Romans . In modern times , Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic , financial , industrial , maritime , political and cultural life in Greece . In 2015 , Athens was ranked the world ' s 29th richest city by purchasing power and the 67th most expensive in a UBS study . In Greek mythology , Perseus , the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty of Danaans , was , alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon , the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles . Perseus beheaded the Gorgon Medusa and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus . Perseus was the son of the mortal Danaë and the god ___MASK65___ . He was also the half - brother and great grandfather of Heracles . ___MASK73___ was the mythological progenitor of the Hellenes , the son of ___MASK44___ ( or sometimes Zeus ) and Pyrrha , brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus , Xuthus , and Dorus . His name is also another name for Greek , meaning a person of Greek descent or pertaining to Greek culture , and the source of the adjective " Hellenic ". Diodorus Siculus (" Diodoros Sikeliotes ") ( 1st century BC ) or Diodorus of Sicily was a Greek historian . He is known for writing the monumental universal history " Bibliotheca historica ", much of which survives , between 60 and 30 BC . It is arranged in three parts . The first covers mythic history up to the destruction of Troy , arranged geographically , describing regions around the world from Egypt , India and Arabia to Greece and Europe . The second covers the Trojan War to the death of ___MASK86___ the Great . The third covers the period to about 60 BC . " Bibliotheca ", meaning ' library ', acknowledges that he was drawing on the work of many other authors . Heracles ( " Hrakls ", from " Hra ", " Hera "), born Alcaeus (" Alkaios ") or Alcides (" Alkeids "), was a divine hero in Greek mythology , the son of ___MASK65___ and Alcmene , foster son of Amphitryon and great - grandson and half - brother ( as they are both sired by the god ___MASK65___ ) of Perseus . He was the greatest of the Greek heroes , a paragon of masculinity , the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters . In Rome and the modern West , he is known as Hercules , with whom the later Roman emperors , in particular ___MASK34___ and Maximian , often identified themselves . The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged , but added anecdotal detail of their own , some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean . Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well . In Greek mythology , Cadmus ; " Kadmos "), was the founder and first king of Thebes . Cadmus was the first Greek hero and , alongside Perseus and Bellerophon , the greatest hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles . Initially a Phoenician prince , son of king Agenor and queen Telephassa of Tyre and the brother of Phoenix , Cilix and Europa , he was originally sent by his royal parents to seek out and escort his sister Europa back to Tyre after she was abducted from the shores of Phoenicia by ___MASK65___ . Cadmus founded the Greek city of Thebes , the acropolis of which was originally named " Cadmeia " in his honour . In Greek mythology , Canace was a daughter of ___MASK36___ and Enarete , and lover of Poseidon . Her brothers were Athamas , Cretheus , Deioneus , Magnes , Perieres , Salmoneus and ___MASK38___ . Her sisters were Alcyone , Arne , Calyce , Peisidice , Perimede and Tanagra . With Poseidon , she was the mother of Aloeus , Epopeus , Hopleus , Nireus and Triopas . In Greek mythology , Enarete or Aenarete (" Ainarete "), daughter of Deimachus , was the wife of ___MASK36___ and ancestor of the Aeolians . Her children were Cretheus , ___MASK38___ , Athamas , Salmoneus , Deion , Magnes , Perieres , Canace , Alcyone , Peisidice , Calyce , and Perimede . She may have been the mother of Arne , if the ___MASK36___ who was her husband was the same ___MASK36___ who fathered Arne . __notoc__ In Greek mythology , Danaë ( or , as personal name also ) was the daughter , and only child of King Acrisius of Argos and his wife Queen Eurydice . She was the mother of the hero Perseus by ___MASK65___ . She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age . ___MASK36___ (" Aiolos " , Modern Greek : ), a name shared by three mythical characters , was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology . These three personages are often difficult to tell apart , and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which ___MASK36___ was which . Diodorus Siculus made an attempt to define each of these three ( although it is clear that he also became muddled ), and his opinion is followed here . Briefly , the first ___MASK36___ was a son of ___MASK73___ and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon , who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third ___MASK36___ was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in " Odyssey " and the " Aeneid " as the Keeper of the Winds . All three men named ___MASK36___ appear to be connected genealogically , although the precise relationship , especially regarding the second and third ___MASK36___ , is often ambiguous . In Greek mythology Medusa (;  " guardian , protectress ") was a monster , a Gorgon , generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair . Gazers upon her face would turn to stone . Most sources describe her as the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto , though the author Hyginus (" Fabulae " Preface ) makes Medusa the daughter of Gorgon and Ceto . According to Hesiod and ___MASK23___ , she lived and died on an island named Sarpedon , somewhere near Cisthene . The 2nd - century BCE novelist Dionysios Skytobrachion puts her somewhere in Libya , where Herodotus had said the Berbers originated her myth , as part of their religion .