Danaids

Character · slug: danaids

Also: forty-nine, forty-nine guilty

Gelanor Yields Argos to Danaus
Heroes / Argive — Danaid arrival and transfer of kingship · Apollodorean / Pausanian — last pre-Danaid king; omen of the wolf
The Danaids: Murder of the Sons of Aegyptus
Local and lesser — Argive · Apollodorean (+ Aeschylean *Suppliants* frame; underworld punishment tradition)
The Danaids’ Punishment: Leaky Jars in the Underworld
Local and lesser — Argive / underworld punishment · Classical underworld tradition (lyric, tragic, and handbook) attached to the Danaid crime