danae

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Definition of danae in English Turkish dictionary

(Mitoloji) Argos kralı Akrisios'un kızı

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Danaë

In Greek legend, the daughter of Acrisius, king of Argos. After an oracle warned her father that she would bear a son by whom he would be slain, he confined Danaë in a tower. Zeus visited her in the form of a shower of gold, and she gave birth to Perseus. Mother and child were then placed in a wooden box and cast into the sea, and they drifted ashore on the island of Seriphus. Perseus grew up there, and when the island's king, Polydectes, desired Danaë , he sent the young hero off in pursuit of the Medusa. Perseus later rescued his mother and took her to Argos

Hyphenation

Dan·a·e

Etymology

[ 'da-n&-"E ] (noun.) Latin, from Greek DanaE.