ACRISIUS

əkrĭsˈēəs: see Danaë and Perseus.

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Tales of Troy and Greece
Book by Andrew Lang, H. J. Ford; Longmans, Green, 1907
Subjects:	Fiction, Mythology, Greek--Juvenile Literature, Trojan War--Juvenile Literature

Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon
Book by Stephen R. Wilk; Oxford University Press, 2000
Subjects:	Medusa (Greek Mythology)
...Abas. Abas, in turn, had twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus. These two, like the biblical...course of this war they invented shields. Acrisius ultimately won, driving Proetus from...divided the Argolid plain between them. Acrisius had a daughter named Danae the name...

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855) Accompanied by an Interpretative and Illustrative Commentary
Book by Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch; Ginn and Company, 1911
Subjects:	English Poetry, Mythology, Classical, Mythology, Norse
...206 The Older and the Younger Heroes. The Genealogy of Danaus. The Danaids. The Doom of King Acrisius. Perseus and Medusa. Perseus and Atlas. Perseus and Andromeda. Bellerophon and the Chimaera. Hercules Heracles : His Youth...

Metamorphoses
Book by Ovid, Henry T. Riley; George Bell and Sons, 1898
Subjects:	Metamorphosis--Poetry, Mythology, Classical--Poetry, Ovid--43 B.C.-17 Or 18 A.D--Metamorphoses--Liber 8
...and flies to Illyria, together with his wife, where they are both transformed into serpents. Of those who despise Bacchus, Acrisius alone remains, the grandfather of Perseus, who, having cut off the head of the Gorgon Medusa, serpents are produced by her...

The Heroes
Book by Charles Kingsley; J.M. Dent & Company, 1899
Subjects:	Fiction
...princes who were twins. Their names were Acrisius and Proetus, and they lived in the pleasant...and keep all for himself. So first Acrisius drove out Proetus; and he went across...were called Cyclopes; and drove out Acrisius in his turn; and then they fought a...

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All Danaë to the Stars: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Women in the Cosmos
Journal article by Pamela Gossin; Victorian Studies, Vol. 40, 1996
Subjects:	English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Civilization, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901
...Danae was the daughter of Eurydice and Acrisius, king of Argos. Her father, hoping...a golden rain shower. Subsequently, Acrisius seized Danaie and Perseus, her son by...conquer the Gorgons, inadvertently kill Acrisius, and retire with his mother back in...

Deconstructing the Classical Age: Africa and the Unity of the Mediterranean World
Journal article by Maghan Keita; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 79, 1994
Subjects:	African literature--History, Classical literature--Social aspects, Racism--Analysis
...a champion through his destruction of Medusa the Gorgon. Medusas lair was situated in Libya.(20) According to myth: King Acrisius of Argos had only one child, a daughter, Danae. She was beautiful above all the other women of the land . . . it was revealed...

The Earthly Paradise
Journal article by Norman Kelvin; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 41, 2003
Subjects:	Books--Book reviews, The Earthly Paradise (Book)
...Referring to specific tales, "Atalantas Race," "The Man Born to be King," "The Story of Cupid and Psyche," "The Doom of King Acrisius," and the episode of Danae and the shower of gold, Pater continues: "These tales have in a pre-eminent degree what is characteristic...

What Has Baldr to Do with Lamech? the Lethal Shot of a Blind Man in Old Norse Myth and Jewish Exegetical Traditions
Journal article by Heather O'Donoghue; Medium Aevum, Vol. 72, 2003
Subjects:	Beowulf (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Comparative method, Jewish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Scandinavian literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Jewish traditions of the death of Cain have themselves been related to Greek myth: Perseus accidental killing of his grandfather Acrisius, for example, (101) and Hesiods story of the blinding of Orion, to whom Hephaistos gave a servant boy as a guide. (102) Such...

Mothers, Madams, and "Lady-Like" Men: Proust and the Maternal
Journal article by Elizabeth Richardson Viti; Symposium, Vol. 48, 1994
Subjects:	Proust, Marcel--1871-1922-- A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
...claustrophobic relationship with the Mother. An oracle had told his grandfather that Perseus would some day murder him, and thus, Acrisius had Perseus and his mother enclosed in a box and set adrift at sea. Medusas death would not only liberate Seriphus but Perseus...

Acrisius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACRISIUS kris e s: see Danae and Perseus . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

DanaË
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dan ae, in Greek legend, daughter of Acrisius. When it was prophesied that Danaes son would kill Acrisius, her father imprisoned her in a bronze...and she bore him a son, Perseus . Acrisius put Danae and Perseus into a chest and...

Perseus , in Greek Mythology
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PERSEUS , in Greek mythology pur se s, soos, in Greek mythology, son of Zeus and Danae. His grandfather, Acrisius, had been warned by an oracle that his grandson would kill him and therefore put Perseus and his mother in a chest and threw...

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