The Danaides

The Danaides were Greek mortals.

Mythology
The Danaides were fifty daughters of Danaus that were set to marry their fifty cousins, the sons of Aegyptus. Danaus didn't want them to go ahead with the marriages so he and his daughters left to Argos. Eventually, Aegyptus brought his sons to Argos and they were set to be married. Danaus instructed his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night, which they all did, except Hypermnestra, who spared her husband Lynceus' life because he honored her wish to remain a virgin. Danaus was angered by Hypermnestra and took her to the Argives courts. Lynceus later killed Danaus for his brothers' deaths.

The other forty-nine Danaides remarried by choosing their new husbands in races. After their deaths, they were punished for their crimes by being forced to use jars to fill a bathtub without a bottom to wash away their sins in Tartarus.

Relationships

 * Parents: Danaus

Apollodorus

 * 1) Hypermnestra
 * 2) Gorgophone
 * 3) Automate
 * 4) Amymone
 * 5) Agave
 * 6) Scaea
 * 7) Hippodamia
 * 8) Rhodia
 * 9) Cleopatra
 * 10) Asteria
 * 11) Hippodamia
 * 12) Glauce
 * 13) Hippomedusa
 * 14) Gorge
 * 15) Iphimedusa
 * 16) Rhode
 * 17) Pirene
 * 18) Dorion
 * 19) Phartis
 * 20) Mnestra
 * 21) Evippe
 * 22) Anaxibia
 * 23) Nelo
 * 24) Clite
 * 25) Sthenele
 * 26) Chrysippe
 * 27) Autonoe
 * 28) Theano
 * 29) Electra
 * 30) Cleopatra
 * 31) Glaucippe
 * 32) Antheleia
 * 33) Cleodore
 * 34) Evippe
 * 35) Erato
 * 36) Stygne
 * 37) Bryce
 * 38) Actaea
 * 39) Podarce
 * 40) Dioxippe
 * 41) Adite
 * 42) Ocypete
 * 43) Pylarge
 * 44) Hippodice
 * 45) Adiante
 * 46) Callidice
 * 47) Oeme
 * 48) Celaeno
 * 49) Hyperippe

Hyginus
Many of the names that Hyginus gives are unreadable.
 * 1) Midea
 * 2) Philomela
 * 3) Scylla
 * 4) Amphicomone
 * 5) Evippe
 * 6) Demoditas?
 * 7) Hyale
 * 8) Trite
 * 9) Damone
 * 10) Hippothoe
 * 11) Myrmidone
 * 12) Eurydice
 * 13) Cleo
 * 14) Arcadia
 * 15) Cleopatra
 * 16) Phila
 * 17) Hipparete
 * 18) Chrysothemis
 * 19) Pyrante
 * 20) Glaucippe
 * 21) Demophile
 * 22) Autodice
 * 23) Polyxena
 * 24) Hecabe
 * 25) Acamantis
 * 26) Arsalte?
 * 27) Monuste?
 * 28) Amymone
 * 29) Helice
 * 30) Oeme
 * 31) Polybe
 * 32) Helicta
 * 33) Electra
 * 34) Eubule
 * 35) Daplidice?
 * 36) Hero
 * 37) Europome?
 * 38) Pyrantis
 * 39) Critomedia
 * 40) Pirene
 * 41) Eupheme
 * 42) Themistagora
 * 43) Celaeno
 * 44) Itea
 * 45) Erato
 * 46) Danais
 * 47) Cleopatra
 * 48) Hypermnestra