Danaïdes

The Danaides (1904), a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation by John William Waterhouse

In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes (/dəˈneɪ.ɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Δαναΐδες, romanized: Danaídes, lit. 'daughters of Danaus', pronounced [da.na.í.deː]) also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In the most common version of the myth, the daughters were forced to marry the sons of Danaus' brother Aegyptus. In retaliation, Danaus commanded them to kill their husbands on their wedding night, and all but one, Hypermnestra, obeyed. The Danaids were then condemned to spend eternity carrying water in a sieve or perforated jug.

The myth of the Danaids is found in numerous written accounts from antiquity, such as in the writings of Apollodorus, Pindar, and Pausanias. The names of the Danaids are inscribed in lists from Apollodorus and Hyginus, though they differ greatly.

Sources from Antiquity

The most complete version of the Danaid myth is found in Apollodorus's Bibliotheca. The story was also documented by several other authors in ancient Greece and Rome, such as in Pindar's Pythian Odes, Pausanias' Description of Greece, and Hyginus's Fabulae. Aeschylus also devoted a dramatic trilogy to the subject, containing The Suppliants, The Egyptians, and The Danaids, or perhaps a tetralogy including Amymone. The Danaids are also the subject of an epic poem which has been lost, called the Danais.

In the Metamorphoses by Roman poet Ovid, the Danaids are referenced briefly as the “daughters of Belus”, or the Belides in some translations, after their grandfather Belus. They appear to Orpheus when he enters Hades, appearing alongside other mythical figures such as Sisyphus.

They also are referenced in Strabo’s Geography, where he describes how the Danaids discovered water underneath the region of Lerna, bringing wells to the previously waterless region surrounding Argos.

Family

The Danaids were all daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In most versions of the myth Danaus is said to be a son of Belus and Achiroe, however, in Euripides' version of the myth he is the son of Io. The Danaids grandfather, Belus, was a son of Poseidon, and ruled over a large territory in the middle east and Northern Africa, including Assyria, Egypt, Libya, and Arabia. Belus and Achiroe had three sons: Cepheus and twin brothers Danaus and Aegyptus.

Despite having the same father, the Danaids may have all been born of different women, though the names and number of women differ between authors. Apollodorus claims that six of the daughters were born to the naiad Polyxo; six to Pieria; two to Elephantis; four to Queen Europa; ten to the hamadryad nymphs Atlanteia and Phoebe; seven to an Aethiopian woman; three to Memphis; two to Herse, and lastly four to Crino. According to Hippostratus, all of the daughters were begotten by Europa, the daughter of the river god Nilus. In other accounts, Melia, daughter of King Agenor, was the mother of all the Danaids.

Mythology

Danaus and Aegyptus

Danaus and his twin brother Aegyptus were given territories by their father to rule over. Danaus was chosen to be king of Libya, while Aegyptus was sent to rule the Kingdom of Arabia, which he later called Egypt, after himself. Both men fathered 50 children, with Danaus having 50 daughters (the Danaids) and Aegyptus having 50 sons. When their father died, Aegyptus and Danaus fought over his inheritance. Disguising it as a form of truce, Aegyptus proposed marriages between all their children. However Danaus suspected his brother had a plan to overthrow him and his kingdom, and therefore refused the marriage proposal. Under the advice of Athena, he built a boat and fled Egypt with his daughters, sailing out of Chemmis.

Danaus and the Danaids sailed to Rhodes, where there they set up a monument to honor Athena Lindia. In some versions, the Daniads were the ones to build the temple at the site. After being in Rhodes, they sailed to the coast of Apobathmi, a location not far from Lerna and Argos.

Arrival in Argos

After arriving in Argos, Danaus declared that he was divinely chosen by Athena to rule Argos. The current king of Argos, King Pelasgus, did not believe him. Even so, Pelasgus got together an assembly to discuss Danaus' claim to the throne. Unsure how to decide, they agreed to reconvene in the morning. However, after seeing a wolf killing a bull the next morning, Pelasgus feared this was an omen that Danaus would take over Argos with violence, and therefore vacated the throne peacefully.

During Danaus' rule, a drought ravaged Argos. Previously, Poseidon had dried up all the springs around Argos due to Inachus, the first king of Argos, making a sacrifice to Hera and claiming the lands belonged to her instead of Poseidon, whose cult preceded hers in the region. One day, one of the Danaids, Amymone, was sent out to fetch water. While out, she fell asleep and was attacked by a satyr. Seeing this, Poseidon intervened and scared the satyr away by throwing his trident; it became lodged in a rock. Poseidon questioned why she was there, and after she told him she was fetching water, he had Amymone remove his trident from the rock, where a spring then gushed forth. This fountain, river, or spring created by and named after Amymone is mentioned by multiple ancient authors including Pliny, Ovid, and Apollodorus. They claim the spring is near to the lake of Lerna where the hydra lived.

Marriages of the Danaids

The Danaïdes kill their husbands, miniature by Robinet Testard

Meanwhile, Aegyptus was enraged by his brother's betrayal. He organized an army led by all his sons, and sent them to Argos with the command that they should not return until either Danaus was dead or he had consented to let the brothers marry the Danaids. Danaus, facing a probable loss and wanting to protect the Argives, agreed to let the brothers marry his daughters in a large wedding feast where every couple was married on the same night. However, Danuas gave all the Danaids daggers, and instructed them to cut off their husband's heads after they had fallen asleep on their wedding night and bring the heads to him as proof of their deaths. The Danaids all followed their father's command except one: Hypermnestra, who spared her husband Lynceus because he respected her desire to remain a virgin. After sparing her husband, Hypermnestra helped Lynceus flee back to safety either with his father in Egypt or to Lynceia, a city in the Argolid. Occasionally, Amymone and/or Bryce (Bebryce) are instead named as the Danaids who defied Danaus.

Danaus was enraged that his daughter refused to do as he ordered, so he imprisoned her and tried her in the Argive courts. In Euripides' version of the myth, Lynceus killed Danaus and his daughters as revenge for the death of his brothers. However, Apollodorus instead has Danaus uniting Hypermnestra and Lynceus, and later passing the kingdom to his son-in-law.

Apollodorus claims the heads of the murdered husbands were buried at Lerna, where the Danaids carried out funeral rites in front of the city. In this version, Athena and Hermes then purified the ground at the command of Zeus. However, Pausanias claims the heads were instead buried at Larisa, and the headless bodies were buried in Lerna.

After the Murders

The Danaids filling the pithos, on a Campanian red-figure hydria attributed to the Danaid Painter, c. 340 – c. 320 BC (British Museum, London)

Afterwards, the Danaids were said to be remarried through athletic contests, specifically footraces. Pindar claimed that Danaus would place one of his daughters at the end of a racecourse, and arrange for the suitors to race towards her. The first man to touch her robes could then marry her. Pausanias instead wrote that Danaus had great difficulty in marrying off his daughters due to their crime, so he sent out a notice that he would give away his daughters without bride-gifts, and that each suitor could choose whichever daughter pleased him most. He then held a footrace where participants were able to choose their wives according to the order in which they finished. Races were carried out until every daughter was chosen.

Some accounts tell that their punishment in Tartarus was being forced to carry a jug to fill a pithos without a bottom (or with a leak) to wash their sins off. Because the water constantly leaked, they would forever try to fill the pithos without succeeding.

Scholarship and interpretation

Across generations of scholarship, and to the present day, there have been numerous interpretations of the myth of the Danaids' meaning and purpose. In the Renaissance, humanist Boccaccio interpreted the myth to be a cautionary tale against the vanity of women, using the punishment of the Daniads in the underworld as evidence.

Scholars have interpreted the myth as an origin of natural phenomena in the Lerna region, particularly the springs. In 1894, Ludwig Preller published Griechische Mythologie in which he interpreted the Danaids as nymphs and their husbands as the springs. Preller described how the Danaids murdered the springs each year, explaining this as the Greek mythological reasoning for the drying up of the springs during the summer. Scholars[who?] further found evidence that the myth served this purpose, including Amymone among the Danaids. However, this interpretation is not widely accepted today.

Other scholars, such as Richard Buxton, have interpreted the myth of the Danaids as a tale that represents a woman’s role in relation to her father and her husband. The Danaids must choose whom to protect, their father or their newly betrothed, and all but Hypermnestra chose their father.

The Danaïds and their husbands

Apollodorus

The list in the Bibliotheca preserves not only the names of brides and grooms but also those of their mothers. A lot was cast among the sons of Aegyptus to decide which of the Danaids each should marry, except for those daughters born to Memphis who were joined by their namesakes, the sons of Tyria. According to Hippostratus, Danaus had all these progenies begotten by a single woman, Europa, the daughter of Nilus.

Apollodorus' list of Danaids
No. Danaids Mother Aegyptus' sons Mother No. Danaids Mother Aegyptus' sons Mother
1 Hypermnestra Elephantis Lynceus Argyphia 26 Chrysippe Memphis Chrysippus Tyria
2 Gorgophone Proteus 27 Autonoe Polyxo, a naiad Eurylochus Caliadne, a naiad
3 Automate Europe Busiris 28 Theano Phantes
4 Amymone Enceladus 29 Electra Peristhenes
5 Agave Lycus 30 Cleopatra Hermus
6 Scaea Daiphron 31 Eurydice Dryas
7 Hippodamia Atlanteia or Phoebe, the Hamadryads Istrus Arabian woman 32 Glaucippe Potamon
8 Rhodia Chalcodon 33 Antheleia Cisseus
9 Cleopatra Agenor 34 Cleodore Lixus
10 Asteria Chaetus 35 Evippe Imbrus
11 Hippodamia Diocorystes 36 Erato Bromius
12 Glauce Alces 37 Stygne Polyctor
13 Hippomedusa Alcmenor 38 Bryce Chthonius
14 Gorge Hippothous 39 Actaea Pieria Periphas Gorgo
15 Iphimedusa Euchenor 40 Podarce Oeneus
16 Rhode Hippolytus 41 Dioxippe Aegyptus
17 Pirene Ethiopian woman Agaptolemus Phoenician woman 42 Adite Menalces
18 Dorion Cercetes 43 Ocypete Lampus
19 Phartis Eurydamas 44 Pylarge Idmon
20 Mnestra Aegius 45 Hippodice Herse Idas Hephaestine
21 Evippe Argius 46 Adiante Daiphron
22 Anaxibia Archelaus 47 Callidice Crino Pandion
23 Nelo Menemachus 48 Oeme Arbelus
24 Clite Memphis Clitus Tyria 49 Celaeno Hyperbius
25 Sthenele Sthenelus 50 Hyperippe Hippocorystes

Hyginus

Hyginus' list is partially corrupt, and some of the names are nearly illegible. Nevertheless, this catalog has almost nothing in common with that of Pseudo-Apollodorus. Names with the (†) symbol mean corrupted entries but annotations from various editors were provided to rationalize their possible names.

Hyginus' list of Danaids
No. Danaïdes Aegyptus' sons Latin Name No. Danaïdes Aegyptus' sons Latin Name
1 Idea † Antimachus Antimachum 26 Autodice Clytus Clytum
2 Philomela Panthius Panthium 27 Polyxena Aegyptus Aegyptum
3 Scylla Proteus Proteum 28 Hecabe Dryas Dryantem
4 Phicomone † Plexippus Plexippum 29 Achamantis † Echomius † Echominum
5 Evippe ? 30 Arsalte † Ephialtes Ephialtem
6 ? ? 31 Monuste † Eurysthenes † Eursythenem
7 ? Agenor Agenorem 32 Amymone Midamus † Midamum
8 Demoditas ? 33 Helice Evideas † Euideam
9 ? Chrysippus Chrysippum 34 [Am]Oeme Poly[de]ctor Polydectorem
10 Hyale † Perius Perium 35 Polybe Iltonomus † Iltonomum
11 Trite Enceladus Enceladum 36 Helicta † Cassus Cassum
12 Damone † Amyntor Amyntorem 37 Electra Hyperantus † Hyperantum
13 Hippothoe Obrimus Obrimum 38 Eubule Demarchus Demarchum
14 Myrmidone Mineus † Mineum 39 Daplidice † Pugnon † Pugnonem
15 Eurydice Canthus Canthum 40 Hero Andromachus Andromachum
16 Cleo Asterius Asterium 41 Europome † Atlites or Athletes † Atlitem
17 Arcania † Xanthus Xanthum 42 Pyrantis † Plexippus Plexippum
18 Cleopatra Metalces Metalcem 43 Critomedia Antipaphus Antipaphum
19 Philea † Philinas Philinam 44 Pirene Dolichus Dolichum
20 Hyparete Protheon Protheonem 45 Eupheme or Eupheno † Hyperbius Hyperbium
21 Chrysothemis Asterides † Asteriden 46 Themistagora Podasimus † Podasimum
22 Pyrante Athamas Athamantem 47 Celaeno Aristonoos † Aristonon
23 Armo † asbus † 48 Itea † Antiochus Antiochum
24 Glaucippe Niavius † Niavium 49 Erato † Eudaemon Eudemonem
25 Demophile Pamphilus Pamphilum 50 Hypermestra Lynceus Lynceum

Ellis

A third list was provided by the English antiquarian, Henry Ellis, which was derived from Hyginus. The names of the Danaïdes were complete but with new entries and some alterations in the spellings. It can be observed that the names Armoaste and Danaes (Danais) were an addition to complete the list, while Scea (Scaea) and Autonomes (Automate), which were borrowed from Apollodorus' accounts were also added.

Comparison of Hyginus' and Ellis' list of Danaids
Hyginus Ellis Hyginus Ellis Hyginus Ellis Hyginus Ellis Hyginus Ellis
1 Midea or Idea Idea 11 Trite Trite 21 Chrysothemis Chrysothemis 31 Monuste Monuste 41 Europome Europomene
2 Philomela Philomela 12 Damone Damone 22 Pyrante Heranta 32 Amymone Amimone 42 Pyrantis Chrysanta
3 Scylla Scillo 13 Hippothoe Hippothoe 23 ? Armoaste 33 Helice Helice 43 Critomedia Critomedia
4 (Am)Phicomone Phicomene 14 Myrmidone Mirmidone 24 Glaucippe Glaucippe 34 Oeme Amaome 44 Pirene Pyrene
5 Evippe Euippe 15 Eurydice Euridice 25 Demophile Demophile 35 Polybe Polybe 45 Eupheme Eupheno
6 ? Danaes 16 Cleo Chleo 26 Autodice Autodice 36 Helicta Helicte 46 Themistagora Themistagora
7 ? Scea 17 Arcadia or Arcania Vrania 27 Polyxena Polyxena 37 Electra Electra 47 Celaeno Paleno
8 Demoditas Demoditas 18 Cleopatra Cleopatra 28 Hecabe Hecate 38 Eubule Eubule 48 Itea Itea
9 ? Autonomes 19 Phila or Philae Phylea 29 Acamantis Achamantis 39 Daplidice Daphildice 49 Erato Erato
10 Hyale Hyale 20 Hipparete Hypareta 30 Arsalte Arsalte 40 Hero Hero 50 Hypermnestra Hypermnestra

Other Danaïdes

Several minor female characters mentioned in various accounts unrelated to the central myth of Danaus and the Danaïdes are also referred to as daughters of Danaus. These include:

Sculpture

The Danaid name also entered modern sculpture through Constantin Brâncuși's Danaïde, a simplified female head conceived and cast around 1913. The work belongs to Brâncuși's early group of abstracted female heads. In 2026, a bronze cast sold for US$107,585,000 at Christie's in New York, setting a new auction record for Brâncuși and becoming the second-highest price paid for a sculpture at auction.

Modern literature

The Daughters of Danaus is also the title of an 1894 novel by Mona Caird, also dealing with imposed marriage although, in this case, it is a single marriage instead of 50, and in 19th-century Great Britain.

In 1910, the Hungarian poet Mihály Babits published his poem The Danaids, translated into English by Peter Zollman and István Tótfalusi.

Magda Szabó's 1964 novel, A Danaida (The Danaid), is about a woman who lives selfishly for two-thirds of her life without realizing that even she can change the course of history.

Le Châtiment des Danaïdes is an essay by the French-Canadian author Henri-Paul Jacques applying the Freudian concept of psychoanalysis to studying the punishment imposed on the Danaïdes after they committed their crimes.

In Monday Begins on Saturday, it is mentioned that the Danaïdes had their case reviewed in modern times, and, due to mitigating circumstances (the marriage being forced), had their punishment changed to laying and then immediately demolishing asphalt.

Guillaume Apollinaire references the Danaïdes in Le Chanson du mal-aimé.

See also

Notes

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  10. 1 2 Tzetzes, Chiliades, 7.37, p. 370–371.
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  20. ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.240
  21. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.5.2
  22. 1 2 Pausanias. 2.24.2
  23. 1 2 Pausanias. 2.19.6
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  31. ↑ Pausanias. 3.12.2
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  36. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.1.5
  37. ↑ another Danaid named Cleopatra
  38. ↑ another Danaid named Evippe
  39. ↑ another Danaid named Hippodamia
  40. ↑ another son of Aegyptus named Daiphron
  41. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 170
  42. ↑ Schmidt (1872) emended this as Idaea or Midea
  43. ↑ antodice in Manuscript F
  44. ↑ Bunte (1857) read as Clitus (Clitum)
  45. ↑ Schmidt (1872) emended this as Panthous (Panthoum); Bunte (1857) suggested this as Pandion (Pandionem), see Apollodorus, 2.1.5
  46. ↑ Proteas (Proteam) in Manuscript F, corrected by Commelinus
  47. ↑ Schmidt (1872) read as Iphigomone, or as Iphinoe and Thionoe which were too far distant phonetically or contextually
  48. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Automate
  49. ↑ Bunte (1857) conjectured this as Chthonius (Chthonium)
  50. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Adiante
  51. ↑ ephialtes (ephialtem) in Manuscript F, Ephialtes (Ephialten) as read by Bunte (1857)
  52. ↑ Bunte (1857) read as Mnestra from Apollodorus
  53. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested as Peristhenes as cited from Apollodorus
  54. ↑ amimone in Manuscript F, corrected by Commelinus
  55. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested as Idas (Idam)
  56. ↑ Schmidt (1872) emended this as Demodice
  57. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Chrysippe as cited in Apollodorus, 2.1.5, p. 85 (Heyne)
  58. ↑ amoëme in Manuscript F
  59. ↑ polydectorem in Manuscript F, corrected by Bunte (1857)
  60. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Pierus
  61. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Polyboea
  62. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested Idmon (Idmonem)
  63. ↑ Trete according to Unger as cited in Paradoxa Thebana, p. 195
  64. ↑ Bunte (1857) conjectured this as Cisseus (Cisseum) from Apollodorus
  65. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Damno
  66. ↑ amintor in Manuscript F but corrected by Commelinus
  67. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Hyperanthes (Hyperanthem)
  68. ↑ hypothoe in Manuscript F, corrected by Commelinus; Hippothoos in Apollodorus, in the place cited, p. 84
  69. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested Imbros, Bromios as cited in Apollodorus, p. 85
  70. ↑ myrmydone in manuscript F, myrmidone in Commelinus
  71. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Oeneus
  72. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Callidice from Apollodorus
  73. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Nelo from Apollodorus
  74. ↑ Schmidt (1872) emended this as Cleodora
  75. ↑ Schmidt (1872) noted an Asteria (Asteriam) was counted among these maidens as cited in Apollodorus
  76. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Euroto from Apollodorus, p. 86
  77. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Alcides (Alcidem) from Apollodorus
  78. ↑ Pyrene in Manuscript F, Pirene as read by Bunte (1857)
  79. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Philinna
  80. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Phileas (Phileam)
  81. ↑ dolychum in Manuscript F, Dolichus (Dolichum) in Commelinus
  82. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Hipparete; Heyne compared Hyperippe in Apollodorus, p. 86
  83. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Prothoon (Prothoonem)
  84. ↑ Schmidt (1872) suggested this as Pylarge
  85. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Acamas (Acamantem)
  86. ↑ palaeno in Manuscript F, Celaeno as read by Bunte (1857)
  87. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Actaea from Apollodorus
  88. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Eudaemon (Eudaemonem)
  89. ↑ Bunte (1857) read this as Hypermnestra
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  93. ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Olenos
  94. ↑ Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.499
  95. 1 2 Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.752
  96. ↑ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 157
  97. 1 2 Callimachus, Hymn 5 to Athena 47–48
  98. 1 2 Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10, p. 123, ll. 42-43
  99. ↑ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.230
  100. ↑ Pherecydes, fr. 37a
  101. ↑ Pausanias, 4.30.2
  102. ↑ Antoninus Liberalis, 32
  103. ↑ Pausanias, 3.22.11
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