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DANAE

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 793 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DANAE , in Greek legend, daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. Her father, having been warned by an oracle that she would
bear
  a son by whom he would be slain, confined Danae in a brazentower. But Zeus descended to her in a shower of gold, and she gave
birth
  to Perseus, whereupon Acrisius placed her and her infant in a wooden box and threw them into the sea. They were frnally driven ashore on the
island
  of Seriphus, where they were picked up by a fisherman named Dictys. His brother Polydectes, who was king of the
island
 , fell in love with Danae and married her. According to another story, her son Perseus, on his return with the head of Medusa, finding his
mother
  persecuted by Polydectes, turned him into stone, and took Danae back with him to Argos. Latin legend represented her as landing on the
coast
  of Latium and marrying Pilumnus or Picumnus, from whom Turnus, king of the Rutulians, was descended. Danae formed the subject of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Livius Andronicus and Naevius. She is the personification of the earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing rain descends from heaven.
Apollodorus ii. 4; Sophocles, Antigone, 944;
Horace
 , Odes, iii. 16; Virgil, Aeneid, vii. 41o. See also P.
Schwarz
 , De Fabula Danaeia (1881).


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