CLASS 310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Product Placement, Sea Monster, Acrisius
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Started it all, being the first greek hero that we know of invented product placement is remembered forever as the first greek hero because he killed medusa and had her head mounted on the aegis shield. His story begins with the mortal acrisius, kind of argos. He has to worry about his successor because he has no sons the oracle tells him that his daughter will birth a son who will kill him (similar to zeus, Cronus & uranus) to prevent this mishap, acrisius locks his daughter danae in a tower. However, there"s a portal in the tower which zeus sees her through falling in lust with her and mating with her, conceiving the first greek hero, perseus. Danae is able to hide her pregnancy and even the birth of her child from acrisius, but one day perseus cried so loud that the king noticed. Acrisius then locked both of them in a chest an threw them into the sea.
