Adventures of Perseus
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- “You, are not fated to have a son. Your daughter, on the other hand, will give birth to a grandson who will murder you."
- "Why would father do things like this?"
- King Acrisius of Argos arrived in Delphi a long time after the noble King Cadmus of Thebes. This King Acrisius was a proud, hard, and rigid man. Danae, Acrisius's daughter, was as beautiful as she was warm-hearted, but that didn't matter to her cold-hearted father.
- The oracle proceeded into her inner sanctum to lay. She looked visibly shaken when she returned to the impatient ruler sometime later. Because of what the oracle stated, he had ordered his men to create a cage built underground with thick bronze walls and only a small hole in the top to allow just enough light, air, food, and water to keep a person alive.
- “Sleep, babe, and sea, be still, and slumber our unmeasured ill!”
- “Oh, may some change of fate, sire Zeus, from thee descend, our woes to end! But if this prayer be overbold and offends thy justice, yet be merciful to me!”
- He then imprisoned his daughter in this terrible facility. He'd decided to leave her there for the rest of her life, surrounded by women and out of reach of any man who might impregnate her with the child who would be his doom.
- The cage, however, was not impenetrable to the gods. Zeus, whose allure to good looking young women had no bounds despite the pain and chaos it had already brought to so many people, noticed her in her cell. In the form of a brilliant shower of gold, he passed through the cage's ceiling and had his way with the awed princess inside. He only did it once, but it was enough: he pregnated her.
- Even though Danae hid her pregnancy, the truth will always be revealed at the end. King Acrisius was furious and he ordered them to be sailed well out to sea and cast adrift inside a tightly sealed wooden crate.
- Finally, the crate washed up on shore of Seriphos, an island off the coast of Greece. On Seriphos, there lived a kind man named Dictys, who, despite being the island's king's brother, preferred the life of a humble fisherman. Dictys and his equally lovely wife did not have any children of their own. So they adopted Dana and Perseus as their daughter and grandson, and the little family lived happily by the sea for a long time.
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