danae

On his way residence, Perseus went previous Aethiopia, the kingdom in Africa. The nation was ruled by king Cepheus and queen Cassiopeia. She boasted her beauty and that of her daughter Andromeda. Poseidon, the god of the sea and waters, was not possessing any of this and sent out Cetus, a huge whale. So Cepheus and Cassiopeia decided they weren’t going to go for the parent of the year award and agreed to sacrifice their daughter by tying her up all naked to a rock at the seaside. The earliest types of the Gorgo of the Archaic period depict a...