Then back to Argos, city of his birth,
triumphant Perseus, with his bride, returned.
And though Acrisius did not deserve
a champion so worthy, he avenged
his father’s father. Proetus, a usurper,
had driven out Acrisius, his brother,
and seized the citadel. But not his arms,
and not the stronghold he had stolen, helped
the cause of Proetus: he could not defeat
the savage gaze of Gorgon—grim, snake-wreathed.