First comes the portico, visible from afar, then the statues of the
Danaids which one will see as a group from a reasonable distance and then, on coming closer, one will be able to discern the image of Danaus among them.
explains this lusus and distinguishes the tortures of Ixion, Tantalus, Sisyphus, as well as the urn of Minos, (or, alternatively, the punishment of the
Danaids), Rhadamantus' iron tower, and Tityus.
Those guilty of premeditated murder include the
Danaids, who murdered their husbands on their wedding night; Ixion, who murdered his bride's father; and Medea, who killed her own children.
Aeschylus' play recounts the flight of the fifty daughters of Danaus (the
Danaids) from their fifty first cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, and their supplication of the king of Argos for protection.
The analysis of film never stops filling up a film that never stops running out: it is the
Danaids' cask par excellence.
He stoically attended medical lectures, on his way to adding "one more obscure name to the lamentable catalogue of bad doctors" when, one evening, he heard Salieri's
Danaids at the Paris Opera.
Driven out of Egypt by his brother, Danaus fled with his 50 daughters (the
Danaids) to Argos, where he became king.
9.105-125), and the embedded tale of a similar contest for the
Danaids (Pyth 9.1 1 1-116).
