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Perseus (c. 213/212-c. 165 BC)

Last king of ancient Macedonia. He succeeded his father, Philip V, in 179 BC. The resurgence of Macedonian power under Perseus led to the Third Macedonian War (171-168 BC) with Rome. Perseus was defeated by Lucius Aemilius Paulus at Pydna 168 BC. He marched in Paulus's victory procession and died two years later in honourable captivity.



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Every one knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely Andromeda, the daughter of a king, was tied to a rock on the sea-coast, and as Leviathan was in the very act of carrying her off, Perseus, the prince of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster, and delivered and married the maid.
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His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast Perseus.
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Then Stratius and Echephron brought her in by the horns; Aretus fetched water from the house in a ewer that had a flower pattern on it, and in his other hand he held a basket of barley meal; sturdy Thrasymedes stood by with a sharp axe, ready to strike the heifer, while Perseus held a bucket.
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