Danae (Δανάη) is from the Greek danos (parched, dry). **Daughter of King Acrisius of Argos, mother of the hero Perseus** — locked in a bronze tower by her father after an oracle warned her son would kill him. **Zeus impregnated her by descending in a shower of golden rain through the tower's roof** — among the most famous subjects in Renaissance and Baroque painting (Titian, Rembrandt, Klimt). **Cast into the sea in a wooden chest with her infant son, she eventually washed ashore on Seriphos.**
Featured in Apollodorus's *Library* and Pindar's *Pythian* odes.
Danae reduces to two — the number of Perseus's mother.