Why Did Acrisius Imprison His Daughter?

King Acrisius was king of Argos. He had an amazingly beautiful daughter, but he wished deeply for a son, so he prayed to the gods for them to give him a son. Apollo,the god of culture and prophecy, told him that he will never have a son in all his days and that the son of his daughter will slay him. Acrisius thinks of just killing his daughter,Danae, to prevent his prophecy, but fears of the punishment he will receive from the gods for this act, so he instead locks his daughter in an entirely bronze house and guards it closely. What he did not expect is for the king of the gods Zeus to come directly to his daughter and impregnate her. From this comes a son named Perseus. When Acrisius learns of his daughter's offspring, he puts both Perseus and Danae in a trunk and sets it off into the ocean. By luck or by the will of Zeus Perseus and Danae wash up onto a small island, where a kind hearted fisherman named Dictys takes in the two strangers. They live contently with Dictys until Dictys' brother, King Polydectes, fell in love with Danae. He decides to construe a plot to get rid of her son,Perseus, so that he can have her. The plan he comes is to convince Perseus to go and slay the woman-beast Medusa. He thinks this feat impossible by a mortal man, because any man who lays eyes upon her turns to stone. To aid him on his quest Hermes gives him a sword stronger than that of Medusa's scale. He also told him he would need equipment from the nymphs of the north, who's location was unknown by all except the Gray Women who are ray and live in gray.The three sisters share one eye between them all and

Straightaway Perseus realizes that King Polydectes’ plan involves Medusa prevailing. Unfortunately for the king, Medusa perishes and Perseus heads back to the Polydectes’ island to exact revenge. On arrival, Perseus yearns for nothing more but to see Danaë and Dictys. Sadly, they were forced into hiding due to Polydectes’ unpredictability. Word soon got around of a banquet at the palace and Perseus reluctantly attends. By manipulating Medusa’s head, Perseus turns Polydectes and his entourage into solid stone. Forever preserving Polydectes’ face just after realizing that Danaë’s son survived an expected death

Hades as the shadow, who represents the bad guy, and tries to defeat the hero and prevent him to achieve his goal, appears and massacred the soldiers. While he destroyed them, he also destroyed the fishing boat which led Perseus' family to death. Perseus tries to save his family, but with no success. That event took his life out of balance and led him to his journey, chasing Hades to avenge his family's death.

On Perseus’ journey for Medusa’s head it was very much expected that he would fail and die, which was Polydectes goal. But in the end he prevailed and completed the mission, due to the fact that he had the luck and support of the Gods on his side. Throughout his voyage he was aided by the support of Hermes and Athena. This can be seen in Perseus’ use of Athena’s shield and Hermes’ sword that he used to attack Medusa. Also, without the help of Hermes, Perseus wouldn’t have been able to find the nymphs of the North, whose gifts (winged sandals, magic wallet, and an invisible cap) also aided him in the defeat of Medusa.

The king's household and family are greatly affected by the religion in that there lack of believe in the gods has caused devastation within there lives. Iokaste, both Oedipus's queen and mother, is a strong believer in the oracle. She does not want to believe that Oedipus is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Her believe in the idea that man can change his fate is challenged as she discovers that Oedipus is truly her son and he in fact killed his father 9 (i.e. her first husband). She is punished by the gods for being a disbeliever. Her punishment of becoming a disbeliever comes in the form of committing the sin of incest, which brings her form the top of the chain of being to the very bottom. The unbearable thought drives her to kill herself and leave her daughters motherless. The overall

The fable is “Heroes Every Child Should Know Perseus” this fable had the people cherish their things and use them appropriately like Perseus. Perseus had to go on a quest to defeat an evil enemy named MEDUSA she was a very ugly lady who had lots of fangs on her head and Perseus had to cut her head off. He was nervous about it but he accepted the task so he was given lots of equipment to help him like a sword that can cut off medusa’s head and some sandals that could make him fly all the way to Medusa. When he was fighting Medusa he remembered everything that he had and the advice he got so that in the end he had cut off Medusa’s head and had survived this very frightening mission. In this myth Perseus used his things appripriatly and use them usefully, unlike the other fables that had people disrespecting their things.

So, when it came to giving a gift to the King for his wedding he was poor, and could not give a gift. Instead of a gift, he offered his services to the King. The king decided to send Perseus off to slay Medusa. And bring her head back as a gift. Perseus uses his shield to see

no ability to stop Polyphemus from eating his crew, yet in the face of what appeared to be

There was a king named Acrisius, he had a beautiful daughter named Danae. The oracle of Apollo told Acrisius that Danae's son would

He then says that he will hit a shot that no man has ever hit before, shooting one of the suitors. “You took my house to plunder, twisted my maids to serve your beds, you dared bid for my wife while I was still alive”, (Odyssey. Book 22. 35-37). After this the suitors realize that they do not have weapons and try to beg for mercy, but they will find none from Odysseus. When Telemachos runs to the storage room to get weapons for the allies of Odysseus, he leaves the storage room door open in which the suitors grab weapons and armour to arm themselves. The suitors back Odysseus and his allies into a corner when suddenly Athena shows up disguised as Mentor. Odysseus recognizes her and calls out for her help, in which the suitors threaten Mentor/Athena with death if they help Odysseus. She turns to Odysseus and tells him to show her his skills before she will help him to see if he is worthy of the help from the goddess. She watches on as Odysseus and his allies pick off the suitors, one by one, protecting them passively when needed. At last Athena’s symbol—the aegis or "great shield"— shines in the air. At the sight of the symbol the suitors start to panic, realizing that Odysseus has godly help, some soon start to beg for mercy realizing that they will not win this fight. Odysseus shows none and it turns into a bloodbath. After the bloodbath Odysseus makes the disloyal maids clean up

Later on, Cepheus imprisons Perseus, because he will not fight with Argos against the gods. In order to punish King Cepheus for his war on the gods, Zeus disguised himself as Acrisius, seduced Danae and impregnating her. Acrisius later sets Danae and the baby Perseus adrift in their coffin. After learning that killing the Kraken would allow him to have his revenge against Hades, who he blames for his family's deaths, Perseus agrees to lead Argos's finest soldiers on a quest to find the Kraken. Hades then finds Acrisius, now called Calibos, and reveals his plan to use the Kraken to destroy Argos. Hades imbues Calibos with superhuman powers in order to kill Perseus.

Jocasta rejoices, convinced that Polybus’s death from natural causes has disproved the prophecy that Oedipus would murder his father. At Jocasta’s summons, Oedipus comes outside, hears the news, and rejoices with her. He now feels much more inclined to agree with the queen in deeming prophecies worthless and viewing chance as the principle governing the world. But while Oedipus finds great comfort in the fact that one-half of the prophecy has been disproved, he still fears the other half—the half that claimed he would sleep with his mother.

There are many different ways the story of Perseus and Medusa are told. One of the ways that is told is that, Acrisius was the king of Argos, the oracle of Delphi told the king that his daughter Danae’s son will one day kill him. Acrisius couldn’t let that happen. Acrisius was scared, so he deprived his daughter with any possible contact with outside world by, locking her in a bronze tower. The tower only had a small

I.Summary: Perseus and the Gordon Medusa begins when Polydektes falls in love with Perseus’ Mother, Danae. Polydektes realizes that he will not obtain Perseus approval over the courtship, but determined to win Danae’s love “by fair means of foul.” Polydektes comes up with a scheme to take Perseus out of the picture. Polydektes pretends to be in love with Hippodameia, Polydektes goes collecting horses as a gift for his bride. “Perseus, when asked for his donation, boasted that if necessary he would even fetch the head if the Gordon Medusa, so Polydektes took him up on his offer, sure that her could never return alive.”

When Zeus and Hades retuned almost everyone had forgotten about Perculus, Diminutive and Gargantuan. But little did Zeus know Perculus had become good friends with Aphrodite (Goddess of love and beauty), and Aphrodite was wondering where he was. When she went to ask Hades where Perculus went, he panicked and made up a ridiculous lie. Then she knew something was going on. She then decided to search Hades lair. There she found Perculus, Diminutive and Gargantuan tied to a ship being prepared to be exiled. She then untied them and she then had them explain what was going on. Form there she obviously sided with the three gods. Diminutive and Gargantuan ran away to an unknown place but Aphrodite and Perculus got revenge by taking away most of Zeus education and diminishing the love life for Hades, both acts preformed by the gods.