ABSTRACT
The story of Andromeda, which has become a myth in its own right, originally formed part of the cycle of exploits that grew up around the legendary hero Perseus, slayer of the Gorgons. These incorporate extra episodes confirm the richness of the archetypal model, and of which the story of Andromeda provides a particularly evocative example. In the first place, Corneille's play about Andromeda was not the only French version of the myth to have been set before the public. Dragonslayer, a recent film now on general release, follows in the true fairytale tradition, and presents the entire sequence of events that people has observed to a greater or lesser extent in the myth of Andromeda. The myth of Andromeda is only one example, but it is an example that is particularly rich and evocative, to judge by the number of adaptations consciously based on it since ancient times.
