danaid rodin Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/danaid-rodin Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:09:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 The Danaids http://toursmaps.com/the-danaids.html http://toursmaps.com/the-danaids.html#respond Fri, 24 Nov 2017 23:48:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245779 Io’s banishment was the first in a series of flights to and from Argos. In time, a boatload of her descendants fled back from Egypt. Aegyptus, king of Egypt (Io’s great-great-grandson), had fifty sons, whom he wished to marry to the fifty daughters of his rival, his younger twin, Danaus. But Danaus and his daughters, fearing it was a ruse to kill them, were unwilling. So they built a ship – the first ever – and escaped across the sea to Argos. Here (in a story dramatized in Aeschylus’ Suppliants), they begged King Pelasgos Gelanor (‘Laugher’) for asylum. Pelasgos referred

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