Perseus was the founder of Mycenae and the greek hero who killed the Gorgon Medusa.

The Gorgon Medusa was a monstrous, yet mortal creature with glorious hair that had the power to turn anyone who looked at her into stone. Messenger of the gods Hermes borrowed Perseus his winged shoes and Athena borrowed her shield, and with these weapons Perseus succeeded in defeating the Medusa.

On his way back to Seriphos, Perseus fell in love with Andromeda of Aethiopia and they married.Together, they went to city of Larissa, where the funeral games were being held, and Perseus participated. But while he was while competing in a game, he threw the discus so far, it went out of his and struck his grandfather Acrisius fatally, fulfilling this way the prophecy once been told.

Struck by fate, Perseus founded the city of Mycenae in a small distance from the city of his grandfather.