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Danaides
(4 syl.). Daughters of Danaos (King of Argos). They were fifty
in number, and married the fifty sons of Ægyptos. They all but one
murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were punished in
the infernal regions by having to draw water everlastingly in sieves
from a deep well.
This is an allegory. The followers of Danaos taught the Argives to
dig wells, and irrigate their fields in the Egyptian manner. As the
soil of Argos was very dry and porous, it was like a sieve.
The names of the fifty Danaïdes and their respective husbands are as
follows:
Actaea wife of Periphas.
“ Adianta ” Daïphron.
“ Adyta ” Menalces.
“ Agave ” Lycos.
“ Amymone ” Encelados.
“ Anaxibia ” Archelaos.
“ Antodica ” Clytos.
“ Asteria ” Choetos.
“ Autholea ” Cisseus.
“ Automata ” Architelos.
“ Autonoe ” Eurylochos.
“ Brycea ” Chthonios.
“ Callidice ” Pandion.
“ Celeno ” Hyxobios.
“ Chrysippe ” Chrysippos.
“ Chrysothemis ” Asteris.
“ Cleodora ” Lixos.
“ Cleopatra ” Agenor.
“ Clio ” Asterias.
“ Critomedia ” Antipaphos.
“ Damone ” Amyntor.
“ Dioxippe ” Ægyptos.
“ Electra ” Peristhenes.
“ Erato ” Bromios.
“ Eupheno ” Hyperbios.
“ Eurydice ” Dryas.
“ Evippe ” Imbros.
“ Glauca ” Alcis.
“ Glaucippa ” Potamon.
“ Gorga ” Hyppothooa.
“ Gorgophon ” Proteus.
“ Helcita ” Cassos.
“ Hippodami'a ” Ister.
“ Hippodica ” Idras.
“ Hippomeduse ” Alcmenon.
“ Hyperippa ” Hippocoristes.
“ Hypermnestra ” Lynceus.
“ Iphimedusa ” Euchenor.
“ Mnestra ” Egios.
“ Ocypete ” Lampos.
“ Oime ” Arbelos.
“ Pharte ” Eurydamas.
“ Pilarga ” Idmon.
“ Pirene ” Agaptolemos.
“ Podarca ” Œneus.
“ Rhoda ” Hippolytos.
“ Rhodia ” Chalcedon.
“ Sthenela ” Sthenelos.
“ Stygna ” Polyctor.
“ Theano ” Phanthes.
Lynceus (2 syl.), the one saved by his wife, is marked with an
asterisk (*).
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Danaides from Infoplease:
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