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The Danaides (1904), a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation by John William Waterhouse. In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes (/ d ə ˈ n eɪ. ɪ d iː z /; Greek: Δαναΐδες), also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In the Metamorphoses, [1] Ovid refers to them as the Belides after their grandfather Belus.
The Portico of the Danaids included statues of the eponymous Danaids, [103] the Egyptian sisters who killed their cousin-husbands on their wedding night in an act of impietas. [j] This artwork may have been intended to evoke and condemn the memory of Cleopatra, who had similarly married and then had assassinated her brother, Ptolemy XIV. [105]
Danais is represented in the table of epics in the received canon on the very fragmentary "Borgia table" [2] as "Danaides". The subject of the epic is the Danaïdes, the fifty daughters of Danaus, a king in Lybia. A description of them preparing for a battle in Egypt (they were to be married off to fifty brothers, the children of Danaus's twin ...
The Danaids tell King Pelasgus that if he refuses their plea, they will commit suicide by hanging themselves on the statues of the gods at the sanctuary. Pelasgus wants to help them, but he doesn't want to start a war with Egypt. He gives the decision to the Argive people, who unanimously decide in the favour of the Danaids.
These 50 sea-nymphs are daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [4] [5] Actaea and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cried out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus. [6] Actaea, a Libyan princess was one of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus and Pieria.
In Aeschylus's play, The Suppliants, the Danaids fleeing from Egypt seek asylum from King Pelasgus of Argos, which he says is on the Strymon, including Perrhaebia in the north, the Thessalian Dodona and the slopes of the Pindus mountains on the west and the shores of the sea on the east; [32] that is, a territory including but somewhat larger ...
In Aeschylus' play The Suppliants [3] [4] the Danaïdes fleeing from Egypt seek asylum from King Pelasgus of Argos, who rules a broad territory bordered by the territory of the Paeonians to the north, the Strymon (river) to the east, and Dodona, the slopes of the Pindus mountains, and the sea to the west;, [5] that is, a territory including or north of the Thessalian Pelasgiotis.
The author of the Bibliotheca, however, mentions both Hypermnestra and Amymone in his list of names for the Danaids. [3] Mythology