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  1. In Greek mythology, daughter of Acrisius,
  2. king of Argos. He shut her up in a bronze
  3. tower because of a prophecy that her son
  4. would kill his grandfather. Zeus became
  5. enamoured of her and descended in a shower of
  6. gold, and by him she became the mother of
  7. Perseus.
  8.