Was the Kraken a sea monster in Greek mythology? If not, where did it come from and what was its ancient Greek counterpart?

Beehive Books is transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic retellings of Greek mythology through fifteen original paintings ...

Perseus mythology. Perseus was a Greek hero, a demigod born of Zeus and Danae. According to GreekMythology.com, Perseus was tasked by the Greek king Polydectes to fetch the head of Medusa, ...

Perseus, Theseus, Jason, Odysseus, Achilles, Heracles (more commonly known by his Roman name Hercules these days)… these were the heroes of the myths, who embarked upon quests, slew the monsters ...

Heywood (Daughters of Sparta) adds to the wave of feminist retellings of the classics with a vivid if unbalanced account of the Perseus myth.Danae is banished from Argos by her father, King ...