- mythology, the Danaïdes (/dəˈneɪ.ɪdiːz/; Gr****: Δαναΐδες), also
Danaides or
Danaids, were the
fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In the Metamorphoses...
- kill him. He
orders the
Danaids to
murder their husbands therefore on
their wedding night. His
daughters agree. The
Danaids would open the day after...
- dilemmas. The
Danaids form the
chorus and
serve as the protagonists. They flee a
forced marriage to
their Egyptian cousins. When the
Danaids reach Argos...
-
Danaid is a
sculpture by
Auguste Rodin,
based on the
account in the
Metamorphoses of Hypermnestra,
eldest of the Danaïdes. It was
originally conceived...
- 2.1.5.7; but
according to
another tradition by
Hyginus (fabulae 170) a
Danaid Cleopatra was the wife of Aegyptus’ son Menalces.
Samson Eitrem: Kleopatra...
- Hypermnēstra), in Gr**** mythology, was a
Libyan princess and, as one of the 50
Danaids, the
daughters of King Danaus, son of King
Belus of Egypt. Her
mother was...
- however,
mentions both
Hypermnestra and
Amymone in his list of
names for the
Danaids.
Poseidon had
dried up all the region' of Argos'
springs after the Argolid...
- Philadelphus,
Ptolemy Soter I (Seleucus
Nicator I), and the
mythological Danaids and others.
Statue of Aeschines, Gr****
statesman and one of the ten Attic...
-
significant point of contact, however,
between Eteocles and the
suppliant Danaids is, in fact,
their extreme positions with
regard to the
opposite ****: the...
- grandson, Danaus,
eventually returned to
Greece with his
fifty daughters (the
Danaids), as
recalled in Aeschylus' play The Suppliants. The myth of Io must have...
