Acrisios

In the Greek Mythology, Acrisios or Acrise (in Greek old Ἀκρίσιος / Akrísios ), wire of Abas and Aglaé, twin brother of Proétos, is king of Argos. Married to Eurydice, he is the father of Danaé (Hygin gives however him Aganippe for woman, and adds Évarété for girl).

Myth

Apollodore reports that he quarreled already with his twin brother in the belly of his mother. Later, both dispute the kingdom of Argos, and it is finally Acrisios which leaves victorious. It exiles his brother then.

Thereafter, to try to thwart oracle which predicted to him that its grandson would kill it, Acrisios locks up Danaé in a high bronze tower to the windows closed by thick bars. But Zeus the visit in the shape of a gold rain and generates Persée. Acrisios then locks up his/her daughter and her grandson in a trunk which it throws to the sea. The trunk is however fished out by Dictys, inhabitant of Sérifos, and Persée grows well off his/her grandfather.

After having killed Jellyfish and having delivered Andromède, Persée goes to Argos, the kingdom of Acrisios. This last, learning the arrival from its grandson, flees with Larissa in Thessalie, by fear which oracle is not carried out. Of return in Greece, Persée takes part in funeral plays that the king thessalien Teutamidès gave in the honor of his father and to which Acrisios assisted. Exceeding its target with the throwing the discus, Persée strikes and kills accidentally the old man, thus achieving prophecy.

Sources

(II, 2,1-2; II, 4,1-4).
(LXIII; LXXXIV).
(IV, 608).

Simple: Akrisios

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