From her severed head sprang Pegasus, the winged horse, and Chrysaor. As he stood over the sleeping creatures, Athena guided Perseus' hand while he looked into the reflection of a bronze shield so as not to be turned to stone by the gaze of the Gorgons if they awoke, and he cut off the head of Medusa with the sickle. Perseus arrived at the home of the Gorgons while they slept. Additionally, Hermes had given him an adamantine sickle. By some nymphs, the hero was given winged sandals, a sack known as a kibisis to store the head of the Gorgon, and the invisibility cap of Hades. It is said that Athena helped in the killing of Medusa because the girl had been willing to have her beauty compared to Athena. Perseus was guided by the god Hermes and the goddess Athena on his journey. When Perseus arrived without horses for a gift as was requested by Polydectes, Polydectes instead asked Perseus to retrieve for him the head of Medusa, the only mortal Gorgon, in the hopes that he would not succeed. He gathered his people to a banquet under the ruse of collecting contributions for the marriage of Hippodamia, who tamed horses. Polydectes fell in love with Danaë, but Perseus was quite protective of his mother, and so the king made a plan to trick Perseus. The chest eventually came ashore at the island of Seriphos, and Perseus was raised by Dictys, the brother of Polydectes, the king of Seriphos. When Acrisius learned that Perseus had been born and was the son of the king of the gods, he put both Danaë and her son Perseus into a chest and hurled it into the sea.
According to him, Perseus was the son of Zeus, who took the form of a shower of gold), and Danaë, who had been locked up by her father Acrisius after he was told by an oracle that he would be killed by Danaë's son. Medusa is best known for her death at the hands of Perseus, and Pseudo-Apollodorus relates the story in the greatest detail.
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