Danaë
Δανάη
The princess locked in a bronze chamber, made pregnant by a shower of gold.
Her father, warned by a prophecy that his grandson would kill him, shut her in an underground bronze chamber.
Zeus seeped in as a shower of gold, and Perseus was born.
Mother and child were sealed in a chest and cast into the sea — but they survived, and the prophecy came true all the same.
SourcesApollodorus, Library