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Danaë

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A young woman dances with one arm stretched out and upwards towards the warm Summer sun, the light shining down on her through the woodland trees in a cascade of yellow. She wears a diaphanous dress that seems to have fallen off, leaving her upper half bare. With half-lidded eyes and a half-smile, she is living inthe moment.

Danaë was a princess in Argos, in Peloponnesia (ancient Greece). She was the mother of Perseus (the god Zeus was the father), the boy who grew up to found Mycenæ after killing the Medusa.

Danaë *Δανάη herself founded the pre-Roman Italian city of Ardea, or so it is said.

The picture, almost 320mm high (over a foot), appears in the middle of a story, “Kreuzwege”—a novel from the world of theatre, by Serafine Détschy. It is not clear whether there is any relevance. The word Kreuzwege is variously translated as Crossroads or Way of the Cross, and the writer may be the theatrical performer Seaphine Détschy-Kramer.

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