9 Which helped Jason get away with the Golden Fleece,
10 Somehow.
11 And there was also aPerseus,
12 Who went looking for a weird woman named bMedusa,
13 Because he needed her head,
14 cFor some reason,
15 dWhich was okay because she had snakes for hair,
16 And used to turn men into stone by looking at them,
17 Until Perseus gave her a mirror,
18 eAnd cut off her head while she was trying to fix her hair,
19 Thus explaining why Perseus is one of the greatest of all Greek heroes.
20 And then there was fBellphone,
21 Or something like that anyway,
22 Who happened to be hanging around when Perseus cut off Medusa's head,
23 Which is how he met gPegasus the flying horse,
24 Who flew right out of a puddle of Medusa's blood,
25 Somehow,
26 And made hBellphone into another great myth,
27 Because he had a magic bridle,
28 iWhich he got from some other weird jwoman,
29 The way Greek heroes always do,
30 And rode Pegasus all over the place,
31 Which the Greeks thought was great,
32 kBecause they had a thing about lhorses,
33 mNot to mention a thing about wings,
34 Which is why it's so special when you can have both in the same myth.
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CHAPTER 91 Usually, though, the Greeks had to settle for one thing or the other.
2 For example, they had a great myth about how nDedalus made wings out of wax and feathers,
3 And then talked his oson into trying them out,
4 pWhich just goes to show you that myths don't have to have happy endings,
5 Because Icarus flew most of the way to the sun,
6 And then fell the whole way back,
7 Screamingq.
8 But Icarus didn't have a horse, and so the Greeks made up a bunch of other great myths about rcentaurs,
9 Which were half man, half horse,
10 sAnd very wise,
11 In spite of the fact that the horse half was the back half,
12 Proving once again,
13 That Greeks can believe practically anything.
CHAPTER 101 For example, they believed that Zeus and Hades had still another brother,
2 Named tPoseidon,
3 uWho was God of the Sea and carried a trident, which is a fork.
4 They also believed that Zeus's son vApollo was the God of the Sun,
5 wAnd Zeus's son xAres was the God of War,
6 And Zeus's son yHermes was the God of Winged Feet,
7 And Zeus's daughter zArtemis was the Goddess of the Moon,
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