A king of Argos and father of the Danaides.
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A king of Argos and father of the Danaides.
Dănăus, in Greek myth, son of Belus, king of Egypt, descendant of
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Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a
Danaus had fifty daughters, the Danaides, and his twin brother, Aegyptus, had fifty sons. Aegyptus commanded that his
sons marry the Danaides. Danaus elected to flee instead, and to that purpose he built a ship, the first ship that ever was. In it
he fled to Argos, to which he was connected by his descent from Io, the maid wooed by
When
The sanctuary of Apollo Lykeios ("wolf-Apollo", but also Apollo of the twilight) was still the most prominent feature of Argos
in Pausanias' time: in the sanctuary the tourist might see the throne of Danaus himself, an
When Aegyptus and his fifty sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus gave them, to spare the
In some versions of the legend, the Danaides were punished in Tartarus by being forced to
carry water through a jug to fill a bath and wash off their sins, but the jugs were actually sieves, so the water always leaked
out (the Danish government's third world aid agency's name was changed from DANAID to
The remaining forty-nine Danaides had their grooms chosen by a common mythic competition: a foot-race was held and the order in which the potential Argive grooms finished decided their brides (compare the myth of Atalanta).
Even a cautious reading of the subtext as a vehicle for
Another Danaus, possibly the same as the one above, had three daughters,
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