Acrisios said he was going to kill his grandfather when he get older.
An oracle is generally the person that gives a prophecy.
I don't know of a the king you mentioned, but if you are referring to the mythical Greek king of Argos King Acrisius than he died when his grandson Perseus accidentally hit him and killed him with a discus fulfilling the prophecy. He had even been warned by an oracle that his daughter Danaë's son would kill him.
An oracle is usually a female who is in the service of Apollo, God of the Sun, Healing, Prophecy, Music, and Archery. People would come to them and they would give a prophecy. The most famous is the Oracle of Delphi.
This is from the story of Oedipus, in which the prophecy is that the son of the king will kill his father and marry his mother.
Do you think the oracle’s prophecy to Acrisius will come true? Why or why not?
Perseus showed him the head of Medusa but then Acrisios turns into stone
That Oedipus will kill his father and marry his mother is the oracle's prophecy in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the Delphic oracle is the best known and most widely respected oracle in all of ancient Greece. The play includes other prophecies, but not by oracles. For example, Theban monarchs Laius and Jocasta hear a prophecy of their son growing up to kill his father, but it is not from an oracle.
An oracle had a prophecy that Oedipus would kill his father, king of Thebes, and marry his mother.
how did king acrisios tries twice to escape his fate
In the prophecy is said, that someone will betray him, and he didn't know who could be that.
the goddest in chains shall be one's salvation
The role of the oracle of Delphi was to cast prophecies like the prophecy that Cronos children would be greater than him so he ate them.