So tell me the way to the Gorgon, lest I wander and perish in the waves.' Then they sighed and wept; and answered--'The Gorgon! she will freeze you into stone.' 'It is better to die like a hero than to live like an ox in a stall.

The Immortals have lent me weapons, and they will give me wit to use them.' Then they sighed again and answered, 'Fair boy, if you are bent on your own ruin, be it so.

We know not the way to the Gorgon; but we will ask the giant Atlas, above upon the mountain peak, the brother of our father, the silver Evening Star.

He sits aloft and sees across the ocean, and far away into the Unshapen Land.' So they went up the mountain to Atlas their uncle, and Perseus went up with them.

And they found the giant kneeling, as he held the heavens and the earth apart.
They asked him, and he answered mildly, pointing to the sea-board with his mighty hand, 'I can see the Gorgons lying on an island far away, but this youth can never come near them, unless he has the hat of darkness, which whosoever wears cannot be seen.' Then cried Perseus, 'Where is that hat, that I may find it ?' But the giant smiled.