Acrisius
Family: Argos · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.2
🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Acrisius)
Life events
- Abas fathered twin sons, Acrisius and Proetus.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2)
- Acrisius defeated Proetus in war and expelled him from Argos.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 Argos)
- With: Proetus
- “And Acrisius gained the mastery and drove Proetus from Argos”
- Acrisius fathered Danae by Eurydice.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2)
- Acrisius cast Danae and infant Perseus into the sea in a chest.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4 · 📍 Seriphus)
- With: Danae Perseus
- “When Acrisius afterwards learned that she had got a child Perseus, he would not believe that she had been seduced by Zeus, and putting his daughter with the child in a chest, he cast it into the sea. The chest was washed ashore on Seriphus, and Dictys took up the boy and reared him.”
- Perseus accidentally killed Acrisius and exchanged Argos for Tiryns with Megapenthes.(Apollodorus, Library 2.4)
- With: Perseus Megapenthes
- “He engaged in the pentathlum, but in throwing the quoit he struck Acrisius on the foot and killed him instantly. Perceiving that the oracle was fulfilled, he buried Acrisius outside the city, and being ashamed to return to Argos to claim the inheritance of him who had died by his hand, he went to Megapenthes, son of Proetus, at Tiryns and effected an exchange with him, surrendering Argos into his hands. So Megapenthes reigned over the Argives, and Perseus reigned over Tiryns”
Apollodorus, Library 2.2
- parent: Abas “and Abas had twin sons Acrisius and Proetus by Aglaia, daughter of Mantineus.”
- parent: Aglaia “and Abas had twin sons Acrisius and Proetus by Aglaia, daughter of Mantineus.”
- siblings with Proetus “and Abas had twin sons Acrisius and Proetus by Aglaia, daughter of Mantineus.”
- enemies with Proetus “These two quarrelled with each other while they were still in the womb, and when they were grown up they waged war for the kingdom, and in the course of the war they were the first to invent shields.”
- child: Danae “And Acrisius had a daughter Danae by Eurydice, daughter of Lacedaemon,”
- rivals with Proetus “when they were grown up they waged war for the kingdom”
Apollodorus, Library 2.4
- enemies with Perseus “Perseus came to compete. He engaged in the pentathlum, but in throwing the quoit he struck Acrisius on the foot and killed him instantly.”
- child: Perseus “When Acrisius afterwards learned that she had got a child Perseus”
Apollodorus, Library 3.10
- married with Eurydice “Eurydice, whom Acrisius married.”
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