Then Perseus goes on his adventures, and Danaë disappears. But in the Perseus myth, Danaë is a key player. Once Perseus is grown, the king of the island tries to force her to marry him. Danaë ...

“Clash of the Titans” is the second big-screen dramatization of the Perseus myth to use that name; the 1981 version featured beasts created by pioneering stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen ...

Perseus, usually held up as the main character in the story, gets a reworking as well. “I felt like it was an opportunity to subvert the hero myth.

Claire Heywood. Dutton, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-47155-5 Heywood (Daughters of Sparta) adds to the wave of feminist retellings of the classics with a vivid if unbalanced account of the Perseus myth.