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For other uses, see Danae (plant)
Danae (plant)

Danae is a monotypic plant genus in the family Ruscaceae with only one species, Danae racemosa. It is a slow-growing evergreen shrub about 60 cm in diameter and its common names are Alexandrian laurel and Poet's laurel....
 and Danaë (painting)
Danaë (painting)

Dana? being impregnated by Zeus, who comes to her in the form of golden rain was a subject for several well-known paintings. Among them are*Titian's Dana?...
In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Danaë (English translation
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: "parched") was a daughter of King Acrisius
Acrisius

Acrisius was a Greek mythology king of Argos, and a son of Abas, son of Lynceus and Aglaea , grandson of Lynceus, great-grandson of Danaus. His twin brother was Proetus, with whom he is said to have quarreled even in the womb of his mother....
 of Argos
Argos

Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius ....
 and Eurydice
Eurydice of Argos

In Greek Mythology, Eurydice was wife to Acrisius, king of Argos, mother of Dana? and therefore grandmother to Perseus. She was said to have been a daughter to Lacedaemon and Sparta , the legendary founders of Sparta....
 (no relation to Orpheus
Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary figure, probably from Thracian origin, venerated by the Greeks and Thracians of the Classical age as a chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes....
' Eurydice). She was the mother of Perseus by Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
. She was sometimes credited with founding the city of Ardea
Ardea (RM)

Ardea, an ancient town and comune in the province of Rome, 35 km south of Rome and about 4 km from today's Mediterranean coast.The economy is mostly based on agriculture, although, starting from the 1970s, industry has had an increasingly important role....
 in Latium
Latium

Lazio, called Latium in English language, is a Regions of Italy of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west....
.

Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, Acrisius asked an oracle
Oracle

An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophecy opinion; an infallible authority, usually Spirituality in nature....
 if this would change. The oracle told him to go to the Earth's end where he would be killed by his daughter's child.






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For other uses, see Danae (plant)
Danae (plant)

Danae is a monotypic plant genus in the family Ruscaceae with only one species, Danae racemosa. It is a slow-growing evergreen shrub about 60 cm in diameter and its common names are Alexandrian laurel and Poet's laurel....
 and Danaë (painting)
Danaë (painting)

Dana? being impregnated by Zeus, who comes to her in the form of golden rain was a subject for several well-known paintings. Among them are*Titian's Dana?...
In Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
, Danaë (English translation
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: "parched") was a daughter of King Acrisius
Acrisius

Acrisius was a Greek mythology king of Argos, and a son of Abas, son of Lynceus and Aglaea , grandson of Lynceus, great-grandson of Danaus. His twin brother was Proetus, with whom he is said to have quarreled even in the womb of his mother....
 of Argos
Argos

Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius ....
 and Eurydice
Eurydice of Argos

In Greek Mythology, Eurydice was wife to Acrisius, king of Argos, mother of Dana? and therefore grandmother to Perseus. She was said to have been a daughter to Lacedaemon and Sparta , the legendary founders of Sparta....
 (no relation to Orpheus
Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary figure, probably from Thracian origin, venerated by the Greeks and Thracians of the Classical age as a chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes....
' Eurydice). She was the mother of Perseus by Zeus
Zeus

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak....
. She was sometimes credited with founding the city of Ardea
Ardea (RM)

Ardea, an ancient town and comune in the province of Rome, 35 km south of Rome and about 4 km from today's Mediterranean coast.The economy is mostly based on agriculture, although, starting from the 1970s, industry has had an increasingly important role....
 in Latium
Latium

Lazio, called Latium in English language, is a Regions of Italy of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche to the north, Abruzzo to the east, Campania to the south, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west....
.

Disappointed by his lack of male heirs, Acrisius asked an oracle
Oracle

An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophecy opinion; an infallible authority, usually Spirituality in nature....
 if this would change. The oracle told him to go to the Earth's end where he would be killed by his daughter's child. She was childless and, meaning to keep her so, he shut her up in a bronze tower or cave. But Zeus came to her in the form of golden rain, and impregnated her. Soon after, their child Perseus was born.

None too happy, but unwilling to provoke the wrath of the gods by killing his offspring, Acrisius cast the two into the sea in a wooden chest. The sea was calmed by Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 at the request of Zeus and the pair survived. They washed ashore on the island of Seriphos, where they were taken in by Dictys
Dictys

Dictys was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology.*Dictys was a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos, both being the sons of Magnes by a naiad....
, the brother of King Polydectes
Polydectes

In Greek mythology, King Polydectes was the ruler of the island of Seriphos, son of Magnes and an unnamed naiad. Polydectes fell in love with Dana? when she and her son Perseus were saved by his brother Dictys ....
, who raised the boy to manhood.

Later, after Perseus killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda
Andromeda (mythology)

Andromeda was a woman from Greek mythology who, as divine punishment for her mother's bragging, was chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster....
, the oracle's prophecy came true.

He started for Argos, but learning of the prophecy instead went to Larissa
Larissa

Larissa is a city and the capital of the Thessaly Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens....
, where athletic games were being held. By chance Acrisius was there, and Perseus accidentally struck him with his javelin (or discus), fulfilling the prophecy. Too shamed to return to Argos he then gave the kingdom to Megapenthes
Megapenthes

In Greek mythology, Megap?nth?s was a son of Proetus. He exchanged kingdoms with his cousin Perseus , whom he killed much later. He was the father of Argeus and possibly Anaxagoras ....
, son of Proetus
Proetus

Proetus was a Greek mythology king of Tiryns. His father Abas , son of the last surviving Danaides, had ruled over Argos as well and married Ocalea....
 (Acrisius' brother) and took over his kingdom of Tiryns
Tiryns

Tiryns is a Mycenaean civilization archaeological site in the Greece Prefectures of Greece of Argolis in the Peloponnese peninsula, some kilometres north of Nauplion....
, also founding Mycenae
Mycenae

Mycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north....
 and Midea
Midea, Greece

Midea is a municipality in Argolis, Greece, with a population of 6,724 . The seat of the municipality is in Agia Triada, Argolis.Within the boundaries of the municipality are two significant archaeological sites dating to the bronze age or earlier....
 there.

Another version states that, angry that his grandfather tried to kill him and his mother, Perseus returned home and challenged his grandfather in his court, and took out Medusa's head from a sack, turning Acrisius and his court to stone.

See also

  • Danaë (painting)
    Danaë (painting)

    Dana? being impregnated by Zeus, who comes to her in the form of golden rain was a subject for several well-known paintings. Among them are:*Titian's Dana?...
  • Apollodorus of Athens
  • Bibliotheke
  • Danae-class cruiser
    Danae class cruiser

    The Danae or D-class was a ship class of light cruiser built for the Royal Navy at the end of World War I and that survived to see service in World War II....
  • The asteroid
    Asteroid

    Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
     61 Danaë
    61 Danaë

    61 Dana? is a quite large, rocky Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt on September 9, 1860 and named after Dana?, the mother of Perseus in Greek mythology....
    , named after her
  • Danae
    List of characters in The Elenium and The Tamuli

    Below is a list of fictional characters appearing in The Elenium and The Tamuli, fantasy series written by David Eddings....
     Literary character from the Elenium
    The Elenium

    The Elenium is a series of fantasy novels by David Eddings. The series consists of three volumes:* The Diamond Throne* The Ruby Knight...
     and the Tamuli
    The Tamuli

    The Tamuli is a series of fantasy novels by David Eddings. The series consists of three volumes:# Domes of Fire#     The Shining Ones...
     series by David Eddings
    David Eddings

    David Eddings is an United States author who has written several best-selling series of high fantasy novels. David Eddings' wife, Leigh Eddings, is uncredited as co-author on many of his early books, but he has since acknowledged that she contributed to them all....
  • Danae Pyle, main character of the comic strip Non Sequitur
    Non Sequitur (comic strip)

    Non Sequitur is a comic strip created by Wiley Miller in 1992 in comics and syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to over 700 newspapers....


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