Danaë

Family: Perseus · Role: mother of Perseus · First appears: Fable 39

Fable 39

• parent: Acrisius “The order of descent is thus reckoned from Belus; Abas, Acrisius, Danaë, Perseus, Bachæmon, Achæmenes, and Orchamus.”
• child: Perseus “The order of descent is thus reckoned from Belus; Abas, Acrisius, Danaë, Perseus, Bachæmon, Achæmenes, and Orchamus.”

Fable 46

• child: Perseus “Perseus, the son of Jupiter and Danaë, having killed Medusa, carries her head into Africa, where the blood that runs from it produces serpents.”
• parent: Acrisius “Acrisius was the son of Abas, king of Argos. He was the father of Danaë, by whom Jupiter was the father of Perseus.”

Fable 48

• child: Perseus “While Perseus is continuing the relation of the adventures of Medusa,”

Fable 55

• admirer: Jupiter “how, turned to gold, he deceived Danaë;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.