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The Danaides (1904), a Pre-Raphaelite interpretation by John William Waterhouse. In Greek mythology, the Danaïdes (/ d ə ˈ n eɪ. ɪ d iː z /; Greek: Δαναΐδες), also Danaides or Danaids, were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya. In the Metamorphoses, [1] Ovid refers to them as the Belides after their grandfather Belus.
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Hippothoe, the "lovely" Nereid and one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris. [2] Her name means running horses (i.e. waves). [3] Hippothoe, a Libyan princess as one of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus. She married and killed her cousin Obrimus, son of King Aegyptus of Egypt. [4]
The list in the Bibliotheca [1] 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.
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When Aegyptus and his sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus gave them up to spare the Argives the pain of a battle. However, Danaus instructed Hypermnestra and the other Danaids to kill their husbands on their wedding night. Her forty-nine sisters followed through, except her, because her husband, Lynceus, [2] honored her wish to remain a ...
Hippodameia, wife of Alcathous (the son of Aesyetes) and daughter of Anchises. [16] [17] Hippodamia, possible name for the mother of Guneus by Ocytus. [18] Hippodamia, an Athenian maiden who was one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur. [19] Hippodameia, a.k.a. Briseis, the wife of a prince in Asia Minor at the time of the Trojan War
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