[1091] Δανάη: daughter of Acrisius. An oracle had declared that her son would slay Acrisius, and so he immured her in a tower of bronze, where, however, Zeus visited her in the form of a shower of gold, and she became mother of Perseus. Acrisius then exposed both Danae and Perseus in an ark (λάρναξ) on the open sea, but they floated safely to Seriphus. The most beautiful of the fragments of Simonides is the Lament of Danae beginning Ὄτε λάρνακι δαιδαλέᾳ ἄνεμος τέτμε πνέων.
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Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912.
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