Danaïdes

Danaïdes in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Danai/+des), the fifty daughters of Danaüs, whose names are given by Apollodorus (2.1.5) and Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 170), though they are not the same in both lists. They were betrothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were compelled by their father to promise him to kill their husbands, in the first night, with the swords which he gave them. ...

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