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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 8309764, member: 82322&quot;]There might be a coin from Argos depicting Danae.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470851[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>BMC Peloponnesus</i> (1887) p. 148 #149, pl. 28 #11; weight not given; 17mm ✓</p><p><br /></p><p>Supposedly this coin depicts Perseus’ mother Danae because her head is thrown back and her dress is raised similarly to vase depictions of Zeus’ golden rain.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately the figure in the picture looks very similar to coins of Argos also minted under Hadrian supposedly depicting king Diomedes, “Goddess sucking infant”, or the statue of Hera by Polycleitus.&nbsp; Alan Walker calls the seated figure Hera.&nbsp; Thus we have no certainty who is on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a mythological connection between Danae and Argos.&nbsp; Apollodorus tells us “Perseus hastened with Danae and Andromeda to Argos in order that he might behold [his grandfather, king] Acrisius.”&nbsp; Perseus’ oddly-named daughter was buried in Argos and her tomb was something of a tourist attraction in ancient times. (Pausanias wrote “In Argos, by the side of this monument of the Gorgon, is the grave of Gorgophone (Gorgon-killer), the daughter of Perseus.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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