Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for destination: "SERIFOS Island KYKLADES".
Colonized by the sons of Magnes, Polydectes, king of, Danae and Perseus in, Dictys made king of, one of the Cycladea islands, Seriphians in the Greek fleet.
And there is Seriphos, the scene of the mythical story of Dictys, who with his net drew to land the chest in which were enclosed Perseus and his mother Danae, who had been sunk in the sea by Acrisius the father of Danae; for Perseus was reared there, it is said, and when he brought the Gorgon's head there, he showed it to the Seriphians and turned them all into stone.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Feb 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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