After zeus seduced her as a shower of gold dust, she gave birth to the hero perseus Acrisius locked danae and her child in a chest and threw it into the sea, but they were ultimately rescued by a fisherman in seriphos. Perseus, son of zeus and the argive princess danae, was a greek hero and king connected with the argolid Perseus’ numerous exploits included beheading medusa, saving the princess andromeda, and founding the city of mycenae and the perseid dynasty. Andromeda, the daughter of cepheus and cassiopeia, was a beautiful princess of ethiopia Offered up as a sacrifice to poseidon as punishment for her mother’s foolish boasts, andromeda was rescued from death by perseus, who took her back to greece to be his queen.
She was finally killed by the hero perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies. Zeus was the powerful but flawed king of the greek pantheon and the supreme god of the greeks He ruled over men and gods alike from his throne on mount olympus. The danaids were princesses of argive descent, the fifty daughters of king danaus Forced against their will to marry their cousins (the fifty sons of aegyptus), they killed their new husbands on their wedding night. Alcmene was the daughter of electryon, the king of mycenae (or tiryns) in the argolid
Heracles (by her lover zeus) and iphicles (by her husband amphitryon) Alcmene was venerated as a heroine throughout ancient greece. Swift and fierce achilles was one of the greatest warriors of greek mythology During the trojan war, he was instrumental in helping the greeks retrieve helen and decimate troy. The naiads were water nymphs, generally associated with bodies of fresh water such as springs, rivers, and lakes Many of them were the daughters, lovers, or mothers of famous heroes and gods.
Not when fair danae felt the shower of gold stream into life, whence perseus brave and bold Not thus i burn’d for either theban dame (bacchus from this, from that alcides came:) nor phoenix’ daughter, beautiful and young, whence godlike rhadamanth and minos sprung [235] not thus i burn’d for fair latona’s face,
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