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. She was finally killed by the hero perseus, who used her severed head as a weapon against his enemies. 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. Alcmene was the daughter of electryon, the king of mycenae (or tiryns) in the argolid She gave birth to two sons 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
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. 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. In fluid gold to danae’s heart he came, aegina felt him in a lambent flame He took mnemosyne in shepherd’s make, and for deois was a speckled snake
She made thee, neptune, like a wanton steer, pacing the meads for love of arne dear Next like a stream, thy burning flame to slake, and like a ram, for fair bisaltis’ sake. And acrisius had by eurydice the daughter of lacedemon, danae And proetus by stheneboea “lysippe and iphinoë and iphianassa.” and these fell mad, as hesiod states, because they would not receive the rites of dionysus.
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