The walls of Ecbatana and the aging queen: notes toward an optics of money
1999; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 15; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/02666286.1999.10443986
ISSN1943-2178
Autores Tópico(s)Classical Antiquity Studies
ResumoAbstract I. The laugh of the Argolian Oedipus was, perhaps, the first anti-oedipe; but not the only one. Apollodorus tells the story of a certain Acrisius of Argolis, fated to die at the hands of his grandson. To escape the oracle, he imprisons his virgin daughter Danae in a ‘brazen chamber’ , though this proves ineffective when Zeus appears ‘in the shape of a stream of gold which poured through the roof into Danae's lap.’) Mother and son are then packaged into an ark and cast adrift, only to wash ashore at Seriphus, where the local king, Polydectes, falls in love with Danae but ‘'could not get access to her, because Perseus was grown to a man's estate’ (Library, II, iv, 2).
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