Danaʹides (4 syl.)
.Daughters of Danʹaos (King of Argos). They were fifty in number, and married the fifty sons of Ægyptos. They all but one murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were punished in the infernal regions by having to draw water everlastingly in sieves from a deep well.
This is an allegory. The followers of Danʹaos taught the Argives to dig wells, and irrigate their fields in the Egyptian manner. As the soil of Argos was very dry and porous, it was like a sieve.
The names of the fifty Danaïdēs and their respective husbands are as follows:
Actæa
wife of Perʹiphas.
Adianta
” Daïphʹron.
Adyta
” Menalʹcēs.
Agaʹvē
” Lycos.
Amymonʹē
” Encelʹados.
Anaxibʹia
” Archelaʹos.
Antodʹica
” Clytos.
Asterʹia
” Chœtos.
Authoʹlea
” Cisseus.
Automʹata
” Architeʹlos.
Autonʹoē
” Eurylʹochos.
Bryʹcea
” Chthonʹios.
Caliidʹioē
” Pandiʹon.
Celeʹno
” Hyxoʹbios.
Chrysipʹpē
” Chrysipʹpos.
Chrysothʹemis
” Asʹteris.
Cleodoʹra
” Lixos.
Cleopatʹra
” Ageʹnor.
Cliʹo
” Asterʹias.
Critomeʹdia
” Antipaphʹos.
Damoʹnē
” Amynʹtor.
Dioxipʹpē
” Ægyptos.
Electra
” Perisʹthenēs.
Erʹato
” Broʹmios.
Eupheʹno
” Hyperʹbios.
” Dryas.
Evipʹpē
” Imbros.
Glauca
” Alcis.
Glaucipʹpa
” Potʹamon.
Gorga
” Hyppothʹoõa.
Gorgʹophon
” Proʹteus.
Helʹcita
” Cassos.
Hippodamiʹa
” Ister.
Hippodʹica
” Idras.
Hippomeduʹsē
” Alcmeʹnon.
Hyperipʹpa
” Hippocorisʹtēs.
Hypermnesʹtra
” Lynceus.*
Iphimeduʹsa
” Eucheʹnor.
Mnestra
” Egiʹos.
Ocypʹetē
” Lampos.
Oiʹmē
” Arbeʹlos.
Phartē
” Eurydʹamas.
Pilarʹga
” Idmon.
Pireʹnē
” Agaptoleʹmos.
Podarʹca
” Œʹneus.
Rhoda
” Hippolʹytos.
Rhoʹdia
” Chalceʹdon.
Sthenʹela
” Sthenʹelos.
Stygna
” Polycʹtor.
Theaʹno
” Phanthēs.
