Acrisius
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Acrisius, an early legendary king whose generation is used to date Pelops, Perseus, Dionysus, Orpheus, Musaeus, and the first oracle of Phemonoe.
Under Acrisius were the crossing of Pelops from Phrygia, and the arrival of Ion at Athens, and the second Cecrops, and the deeds of Perseus and of Dionysus, and Orpheus and Musaeus.
And if anyone tells us that Phemonoe first delivered oracles to Acrisius, let him know that twenty-seven years after Phemonoe came Orpheus and Musaeus and Linus, the teacher of Heracles.
The Histories
Grandfather of Perseus whose ancestors are said, by both the Greek and Persian accounts as Herodotus reports them, to have been Egyptian.
the Persians say that the ancestors of Acrisius had no bond of kinship with Perseus, and they indeed were, as the Greeks say, Egyptians.
farther back than that, if the king's ancestors in each generation, from Danae daughter of Acrisius upward, be reckoned, then the leaders of the Dorians will be shown to be true-born Egyptians.
Iliad
Father of Danae, named in Zeus's catalogue of past loves.
Never yet have I been so overpowered by passion neither for goddess nor mortal woman as I am at this moment for yourself - not even when I was in love with the wife of Ixion who bore me Peirithoos, peer of gods in counsel, nor yet with Danae the daintily-ankled daughter of Acrisius, who bore me the famed hero Perseus.
Hellenica
One of the five men chosen as generals of Sicyon in the assembly engineered by Euphron.
and they chose Euphron himself, Hippodamus, Cleander, Acrisius, and Lysander.