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Perseus transforms with Medusa' head Phineus and his soldiers into stone
Phineus:
King Cepheus and queen Cassiopeia had promised their daughter Andromeda to the nobleman Phineus.
Perseus married her as his reward, in spite of Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head (Ovid, Metamorphoses v. 1).
Sources
Ovid, Metamorphoses IV, 668-764.
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