Polydectes

Raised in this enchanted bayou by his aristocratic mother, Danae (Lauren Shmalo), Percy meets and clashes with the evil landlord Polydectes (Evan Casey, oozing sinister charisma).

Theater review: 'Perseus Bayou' at Imagination Stage Celia Wren 2011

Lusting after Danae, Polydectes tries to get rid of her son by ordering him to kill Medusa Kristen Jepperson, whose glance turns mortals to stone.

Theater review: 'Perseus Bayou' at Imagination Stage Celia Wren 2011

Brandon McWilliams supplies knockout costumes, including the carnival garb worn at Polydectes' decadent parties and the exotic robes of Athena.

Theater review: 'Perseus Bayou' at Imagination Stage Celia Wren 2011

There's nothing wrong with tasks, jobs, missions, etc., but "quests" as the mainstay of gameplay become drained of significance and emotion when they become repetitive, mechanistic, dim shadows of the heroic undertakings to which they refer Perseus being sent by Polydectes to slay the Medusa isn't quite the same as being told by a blank-faced NPC to bring back ten rat tails.

Foozles I Have Known, Quests I Have Done 2008

All might have been fine too, had one of the pirates not gone to King Polydectes and told tales of a isle of monsters.

Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006

Polydectes by his first wife Lycurgus by Dionassa his second.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Charilaos,1331 the son of Eunomos, the son of Polydectes, the son of Prytanis, the son of

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

And the crafty eyes of old Polydectes, the king, ever watched her more eagerly, always more hotly desired her for his wife.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

And Polydectes, glad to humble the lad who was keeper of his mother's honour, echoed their foolish taunt.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

Here a fisherman came on this strange flotsam and jetsam of the waves and took the mother and child to Polydectes, the king, and the years that followed were peaceful years for Danaë and for Perseus.

A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang