Greek Tales For Kids

Hippolyte was the queen of the Amazons, a tribe of women warriors. It was a leather belt that had been given to her by Ares, the war god because she was the best warrior of all the Amazons. She wore this belt across her chest and used it to carry her sword and spear.

Medusa. Luckily for Perseus, the Gorgons are asleep when he gets there. Perseus sneaks up to Medusa, the only Gorgon who is mortal. He raises his sword, taking aim by looking at the monster through the reflection in his shield, and chops off Medusa's head.

Perseus continued his journey home and, as he passed the kingdom of Ethiopia, he came upon the beautiful and helpless maiden Andromeda, chained to the rocks waiting to be devoured by a sea monster. One day, the vain queen had bragged that her daughter Andromeda was more beautiful than the Nereids, the sea nymphs.

Odysseus and his men then sail through the murky night to the land of the Cyclopes, a rough and uncivilized race of one-eyed giants. The cave's inhabitant soon returns-it is the Cyclops Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon. Polyphemus makes a show of hospitality at first, but he soon turns hostile.