This is where the 1981 film The Clash of the Titans begins. He placed both Danae and Perseus in a large wooden chest and set it adrift in the Aegean Sea, consigning his daughter and his grandson to death. In any case, Acrisius acted quickly upon the discovery. Others maintain that the mother and child spent more than a year imprisoned together-until Acrisius heard the toddler playing in the underground chamber. Some storytellers insist that Acrisius, alerted by a baby's cry, discovered his grandson almost immediately after his birth.
Thus, Danae, despite her imprisonment, gave birth to a child, whom she called Perseus. The god appeared before her in the form of a shower of gold, which poured through the roof of her chamber and fell into her lap. Though some rumors held that the exiled Proetus had stolen into his niece's cell and impregnated her, Danae always insisted that Zeus had fathered the child. So Acrisius decides to keep a daughter a virgin, but fails. But the king, after consulting with the oracle, learns that any male child, his daughter's son, would grow up to kill him.
And like Daphne's father Acrisius, he too, wants a grandson. The feat would have been too much for mere normal men to manage.Īcrisius has a daughter named Danae. The race of Cyclops-renowned stone masons-build an impervious wall around Tiryn using immense blocks of stone. Romulus kills Remus, Cain kills Abel, the Wright brothers are an exception.Īcrisius, more powerful, exiles his brother Proetus, who becomes the ruler of Tiryn, a neighboring city. Other examples: Oedipus' two sons Polyneices and Eteocles? They kill each other in a Civil War. Sibling rivalry over the kingdom is at stake. They are supossedly destined to grow up ruling Argos together, but that never happens. His grandfather, Acrisius, has a twin brother, Proetus, and these two are enemies even before they were born. The story of Perseus begins two generations earlier.
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