![]() ![]() 63.) According to a later or Italian tradition, the chest was carried to the coast of Italy, where king Pilumnus married Danaë, and founded Ardea (Virg. ![]() Acrisius ordered mother and child to be exposed on the wide sea in a chest but the chest floated towards the island of Seriphus, where both were rescued by Dictys, the brother of king Polydectes. But here she became mother of Perseus, notwithstanding the precautions of her father, according to some accounts by her uncle Proetus, and according to others by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a shower of gold. For this reason Acrisius kept Danaë shut up in a subterraneous apartment, or in a brazen tower. An oracle declared that Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, would give birth to a son, who would kill his grandfather. 16, Aeschylus, Apollodorus 2.34, Strabo 10.5.10, Herodotus 6.53 & 7.61, Diodorus Siculus 4.9.1, Hyginus Fabulae 63 & 155, Ovid Metamorphoses 4.607, Nonnus Dionysiaca 2.286, et al)ĭANAE (Danaê). PERSEUS (by Zeus) (Homer Iliad 14.319, Pindar Pythian 12. AKRISIOS & AGANIPPE (Hyginus Fabulae 63) OFFSPRING AKRISIOS (Homer Iliad 14.319, Aeschylus, Herodotus 6.53, Strabo 10.5.10, Diodorus Siculus 4.9.1, Pausanias 2.23.7, Hyginus Fabulae 155, Ovid Metamorphoses 4.607, Nonnus Dionysiaca 30.264) It should be noted that the Argive genealogies were quite bloated and do not synchronise well with those of the other mythic royal houses. Of Danae's descendants, the most famous were Herakles, her great-great grandson, and King Eurystheus, her great-grandson Danae was a great-grandaughter of the Danaid Hypermnestra and her cousin Lynkeus. Io's great-great-grandson Danaus made the return trip to Argos with his fifty daughters, the Danaides, to claim the throne. In the chronology of myth Danae was a descendant of Io-an Argive maiden loved by Zeus who was forced to wander all the way to Egypt in the guise of a cow. Danaan was synonymous with Argive but was sometimes used to describe Greeks in general (e.g. He then travelled with mother to Argos to claim his grandfather's throne.ĭanae was the eponymous "queen" of the Danaans. In anger Perseus turned Polydektes and his allies to stone with Gorgon's head. The hero returned victorious only to learn that his mother had fled to the temple of Athena seeking refuge from the king. Later when Perseus was fully grown, King Polydektes (Polydectes) of Seriphos sought Danae for his wife and, wishing to rid himself of her son, commanded Perseus fetch the Gorgon's head. By the providence of the gods they made it safely to the island of Seriphos where the fisherman Diktys (Dictys) offered them refuge in his home. As soon as her father learned of this, he placed Danae and the infant in a chest and set them adrift at sea. She conceived and bore a son named Perseus. ![]() Her prison, however, was infiltrated by the god Zeus who impregnated her in the guise of a golden shower. ![]() When her father learned a prophecy that he was destined to be killed by a son of his daughter, he locked Danae away in a subterranean, bronze chamber. Danaan-Woman Danae and the Golden Shower, Lucanian red-figure krater C5th B.C., Musée du LouvreĭANAE was a princess of Argos in the Greek Peloponnese, the only child of King Akrisios (Acrisius). ![]()
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