According to Greek mythology, Danae and her son Perseus had been set adrift in the sea in a box and rescued by fisherman Dictys.

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According to Greek mythology, Danae and her son Perseus had been set adrift in the sea in a box (seen here in this 1901 illustration) by Perseus' grandfather, to whom an omen had foretold he would be killed by a son of Danae. The tide washed the box up on the shore of Seriphos, one of the Cyclades islands. Dictys, a fisherman and brother of Seriphos' king, rescued the pair.

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