[33] “Hindu Legends,” Karlsruhe, 1846, Part II, pp. 117 to 127.
[34] “Hindu Legends,” l. c.
[35] See Röscher, concerning the Ion of Euripides. Where no other source is stated, all Greek and Roman myths are taken from the Extensive Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology, edited by Röscher, which also contains a list of all sources.
[36] According to Bethe, “Thebanische Heldenlieder,” the exposure on the waters was the original rendering. According to other versions, the boy is found and raised by horse herds; according to a later myth, by a countryman, Melibios.
[37] The entire material has been discussed by Rank in Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage, 1912, Chapter X.
[38] I. In the version of Euripides, whose tragedies “Auge” and “Telephos” are extant, Aleos caused the mother and the child to be thrown into the sea in a box, but through the protection of Athene this box was carried to the end of the Mysian River, Kaikos. There it was found by Teuthras. who made Auge his wife and took her child into his house as his foster son.
[39] Later authors, including Pindar, state that Danae was impregnated, not by Zeus, but by the brother of her father.
[40] Simonides of Keos (fr. 37, ed. Bergk), speaks of a casement strong as ore, in which Danae is said to have been exposed. (Geibel, Klassisches Liederbuch, page 52.)
[41] According to Hüsing, the Perseus myth in several versions is also demonstrable in Japan. Compare also, Sydney Hartland, Legend of Perseus, 1894-96; 3 volumes. London.
[42] Claudius Aelianus, “Historia animalium,” XII, 21, translated by Fr. Jacobs (Stuttgart, 1841).