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  • Uploaded by: Photo of petedrob petedrob
    In album: Italy 2007
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  • Date uploaded: Wed Apr 25 00:59:04 PDT 2007

Perseus was the son of Danae who, by her very name, was the archetype and eponymous ancestor of all the Danaans She was the only daughter of Acrisius, King of Argos. Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, Acrisius consulted the oracle at Delphi, who warned him that although destined to remain without a son himself, he would one day be killed by his daughter's child. Danae was childless and to keep her so, he shut her up in a bronze chamber underground: this mytheme is also connected to Ares, Oenopion, Eurystheus, etc. Zeus came to her in the form of a shower of gold, and impregnated her. Soon after was born their child Perseus— "Perseus Eurymedon, for his mother gave him this name as well" (Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica IV).

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