Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Acrisius

    mythological figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    Acrisian people

    in the texts

    EpiniciansClassical · Greek

    Mythological king, brother of Proetus, whose feud with him leads to the founding of Tiryns by the Cyclopes.

    For it was now the tenth year since the heroes with their bronze shields, fearless in battle, had left Argos, the city loved by the gods, and lived in Tiryns with their much envied king, because an insurmountable quarrel had arisen, from a slight beginning, between the brothers Proetus and Acrisius.
    chapter 11

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    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.
    book 1
    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.
    book 1

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    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.
    book 6
    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.
    book 6

    IliadClassical · Greek

    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.
    book 14

    AeneidImperial · Latin

    Argive king referenced as ancestor of Danae's people and of Turnus's lineage.

    Indeed, if Turnus' ancient race be told, it sprang of Inachus, Acrisius, and out of mid- Mycenae.
    book 7
    (So runs the tale) by beauteous Danae and her Acrisian people, shipwrecked there by south wind strong.
    book 7

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    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.
    book 7