Q3 Post14

A tale about love that I read this week is called "The Sea Monster" which is based directly off of its Greek mythological counterpart. It is about a city that is visited by a sea monster that destroys all the trade going to the city. The oracles in the city find out that if they give the monster the king's daughter, Andromeda, it will leave the city forever. So, they chain her to a sea wall and she waits for a day and the sea monster does not come. The next day, a man named Perseus finds Adromeda and falls in love with her. He will not defy the oracles of her city however and so he ends up fighting and slaying the creature (called a Schyllia in ancient Greece). In return for the service he provides the city, he is allowed to marry Andromeda as a tolken of gratitude from the city's king. Oh, another reason that Andromeda was the one chosen by the oracles is because she was also considered the most beautiful in the city.