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In Greek mythology, Danaë (/ ˈ d æ n eɪ. i /, [1] / ˈ d æ n i. iː /; [2] Ancient Greek: Δανάη, romanized: Danáē; Ancient Greek: [da.ná.ɛː], Modern:) was an Argive princess and mother of the hero Perseus by Zeus. She was credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium during the Bronze Age.
Soon after, their child, a son, was born; Perseus-"Perseus Eurymedon, [b] for his mother gave him this name as well". [12] Fearful for his future, but unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods and the Erinyes by killing the offspring of Zeus and his daughter, Acrisius cast the two into the sea in a wooden chest. [13]
When Acrisius learned of Danaë's son Perseus, he refused to believe Zeus's role, and cast mother and child adrift at sea in a chest. They landed at Seriphus , where Perseus was raised by Dictys . Perseus eventually fulfilled the prophecy by killing Acrisius years after – although accidentally. [ 11 ]
The canvas depicts a scene from the legend of Zeus and Danaë. According to the legend King Acrisius of Argos was warned by an oracle that he would be killed by his own grandson. To frustrate the prediction he locked up his beautiful only daughter Danaë in a specially constructed bronze chamber.
Nemesis; raped by Zeus, her first cousin once removed, who relentlessly pursued her, changing many forms. In some versions, Nemesis is the mother of Helen of Troy rather than Leda. Nicaea; raped by Dionysus while she was unconscious. Persephone; raped by her uncle Hades and in Orphic tradition by her father Zeus disguised as a snake or as Hades ...
The local child of the Great Mother, "a small and inferior deity who took the roles of son and consort", [281] whose Minoan name the Greeks Hellenized as Velchanos, was in time assumed as an epithet by Zeus, as transpired at many other sites, and he came to be venerated in Crete as Zeus Velchanos ("boy-Zeus"), often simply the Kouros.
Made up of Danae and Olen Netteburg, both 44, and their five children Lyol, 14, Zane, 12, Addison, 10, Juniper, eight, and Piper, two, the family of hikers from the US, have just completed North ...
The protagonist of the story is Perseus, a young man, who is the son of Zeus and Danae and the grandson of Acrisius. Acrisius is the father of Danae. The myth begins with Acrisius receiving the prophecy that his own grandson will kill him one day. Consequently, Acrisius locks up Danae, so she could not bear him a grandson.