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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A king of Argos and father of Danaë who was killed by his grandson Perseus.
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Examples
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In the pleasant land of Argos, now a place of unwholesome marshes, once upon a time there reigned a king called Acrisius, the father of one fair daughter.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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A former king, Acrisius, he became a beast when Zeus struck him with a lightning bolt.
41 High Resolution Photos from Clash of the Titans | /Film 2010
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Even the most bare bones details promise wondrous adventure: Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae (daughter of King Acrisius), is raised by the fisherman Dictys, slays the Gorgon Medusa and ultimately rescues Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus, from the sea serpent Cetus (replaced with the Kraken for the movies) and marries her.
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And Acrisius had by Eurydice the daughter of Lacedemon,
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He will not, trust me, have to deal in my person with a sottish, dunsical Amphitryon, nor with a silly witless Argus, for all his hundred spectacles, nor yet with the cowardly meacock Acrisius, the simple goose-cap Lycus of Thebes, the doting blockhead Agenor, the phlegmatic pea-goose
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Acrisius is, she says, "Of thine own flesh and blood too much afraid."
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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Acrisius reminds us that life and death should not be the objects of men's desire on the one hand and fear on the other.
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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Paradise is epitomized in "The Doom of King Acrisius," and specifically in Morris 'treatment of the Medusa.
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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Andromeda is the Medusa now released from her imprisonment in a world ruled in Acrisius, the spectre of the
The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology 1972
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