Acrisius
Son of Abas, king of Argos, grandson of Lynceus, and great-grandson of Danaus.
An oracle had declared that Danaë, the daughter of Acrisius, would give birth to a son who would kill his grandfather. For this reason he kept Danaë shut up in a subterraneous apartment, or in a brazen tower. But here she became the mother of Perseus, by Zeus (Jupiter), who visited her in a shower of gold. Acrisius ordered mother and child to be exposed on the sea in a chest; but the chest floated towards the island of Seriphus, where both were rescued by Dictys.