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DANAE , in See also:Greek See also:legend, daughter of Acrisius, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Argos. Her See also:father, having been warned by an See also:oracle that she would See also:bear a son by whom he would be slain, confined Danae in a brazentower. But See also:Zeus descended to her in a shower of See also:gold, and she gave See also:birth to See also:Perseus, whereupon Acrisius placed her and her See also:infant in a wooden See also:box and threw them into the See also:sea. They were frnally driven ashore on the See also:island of Seriphus, where they were picked up by a fisherman named Dictys. His See also:brother Polydectes, who was king of the island, See also:fell in love with Danae and married her. According to another See also:story, her son Perseus, on his return with the See also:head of See also:Medusa, finding his See also:mother persecuted by Polydectes, turned him into See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, and took Danae back with him to Argos. Latin legend represented her as landing on the See also:coast of See also:Latium and marrying Pilumnus or Picumnus, from whom Turnus, king of the Rutulians, was descended. Danae formed the subject of tragedies by See also:Aeschylus, See also:Sophocles, See also:Euripides, Livius Andronicus and See also:Naevius. She is the personification of the See also:earth suffering from drought, on which the fertilizing See also:rain descends from See also:heaven.
See also:Apollodorus ii. 4; Sophocles, See also:Antigone, 944; See also:Horace, Odes, iii. 16; See also:Virgil, Aeneid, vii. 41o. See also P. See also:Schwarz, De Fabula Danaeia (1881).
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