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Danaus in Wikipedia

Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper";[citation needed] Greek Δαναός), in Greek mythology he was the twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Achiroe and Belus, a mythical king of Egypt. The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend (or re-foundation legend) of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus. In Homer's Iliad, "Danaans" ("tribe ...

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Danaus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(Δαναός), a son of Belus and Anchinoe, and a grandson of Poseidon and Libya. He was brother of Aegyptus, and farther of fifty daughters, and the mythical ancestor of the Danai. (Apollod. 2.1.4, &c.) According to the common story he was a native of Chemnis, in the Thebais in Upper Egypt, and migrated from thence into Greece. (Hdt. 2.91.) Be...

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