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    Danae

    mythological figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages

    Danae daughter of Acrisius · daintily-ankled daughter of Acrisius · rich-haired Danae

    in the texts

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Mother of Perseus and daughter of Acrisius, cited as the genealogical link supporting the claim of Egyptian ancestry for the Dorian kings.

    the Persians say that the ancestors of Acrisius had no bond of kinship with Perseus, and they indeed were, as the Greeks say, Egyptians.
    chapter 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.
    chapter 6

    Shield of HeraclesClassical · Greek

    Mother of Perseus, named in the shield's ekphrasis as identifying her son.

    There, too, was the son of rich-haired Danae, the horseman Perseus:
    shield of heracles

    IliadClassical · Greek

    One of the mortal women named in Zeus's catalogue of past loves, mother of Perseus.

    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.
    chapter 14

    BusirisClassical · Greek

    The mythological mother of Perseus by Zeus, named in the genealogical chronology used to defend Busiris.

    but all chroniclers agree that Heracles was later by four generations than Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae, and that Busiris lived more than two hundred years earlier than Perseus.
    busiris

    HelenClassical · Greek

    Mortal woman with whom Zeus united in the form of a shower of gold.

    For in the likeness of Amphitryon he came to Alcmena, and as a shower of gold he united with Danae, and in the guise of a swan he took refuge in the bosom of Nemesis, and again in this form he espoused Leda;
    helen

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    Mortal woman visited by Zeus, mother of Perseus.

    Zeus made this saying clear by visiting Alcmena and Danae, and he united the fruit of intelligence with straightforward justice in the father of Adrastus and in Lynceus.
    chapter 10

    PythianClassical · Greek

    The mother of Perseus, said to have conceived him in a spontaneous shower of gold (i.e., by Zeus).

    Perseus, the son of Danae, who they say was conceived in a spontaneous shower of gold.
    chapter 12
    Breathing boldness of spirit once the son of Danae went to that gathering of blessed men, and Athena led him there.
    chapter 10

    AntigoneClassical · Greek

    A mythic woman of esteemed lineage whom the Chorus invokes as a parallel for Antigone's enclosed fate.

    So too endured Danae in her beauty to change the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement.
    antigone