Your son will be your downfall.
These words still rang in the ears of King Acrisius. He had just gone to see the Oracle of Apollo to discover his fate like any other man who travels the distance to see the oracle. He had only one offspring. A daughter named Danae. Fear struck his heart. He loved his daughter but the prophecy he received turned him into a mad man.
When he returned back to the palace he ordered his guards to find his daughter and lock her up in the tower that was encased in bronze. There were no doors and only one small window at the top to let some light in. Danae didn't know what she did wrong. Her father offered her no explanations for his actions. What she did know was that he had spent days traveling to see the oracle and when he returned he threw her into the tower.
The days she spent there were lonely. All she had to keep her company were the rats that scuttled by every now and then to see if she was still living. One afternoon a gold light spilled into the room from the window and she conceived a child through the power of Zeus. That evening when her father came to visit her she told him what had happened. King Acrisius ordered his men to build a wooden box immediately. When Danae gave birth to the baby Perseus, King Acrisius led her out of the tower and down to the sea where the box was waiting.
Danae and Perseus were set adrift and for days they floated in the sea. The box washed upon the shore of the island Seriphos where King Polydectes ruled. Polydectes' brother Dictys discovered Danae and Perseus in the box that washed upon the shore and led the woman with the baby to the palace. King Polydectes became infatuated with Danae and when Perseus grew older he asked her hand in marriage. Danae refused and the king was furious. He wanted Danae as a wife and was going to marry her by force except for one problem. Perseus.
King Polydectes devised a plan where he pretended to marry another woman and demanded that all of the guests bring wedding gifts. Perseus being poor couldn't offer the king any gifts and instead asked the king if there was anything he could do.
"Bring me the head of the Gorgon."
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