{"id":21647,"date":"2026-11-11T05:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=21647"},"modified":"2026-11-11T05:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T04:10:42","slug":"danaides-hypermnestra-lynceus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letrat.eu\/?p=21647","title":{"rendered":"Danaides – Hypermnestra (& Lynceus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Hypermnestra<\/strong><\/span>
\"\"One of the Danaides, the fifty daughters of King Danaus. She married her cousin Lynceus, one of the fifty sons of Aegyptus. While her other sisters each murdered their respective husbands on their bridal night, she spared Lynceus' life because he preserved her virginity.\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Lynceus<\/strong><\/span>
A son of Aegyptus and Argyphia, and husband of the Danaid Hypermnestra, by whom he became the father of Abas. He was king of Argos, whence that city is called Lynkeion Argos (\u039b\u03c5\u03bb\u03ba\u03ae\u03ca\u03bf\u03bd \u1f0c\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2).
His story is, that when the Danaides, by the desire of their father, killed their husbands in one night, Hypermnestra alone spared the life of her husband Lynceus. Danaus thereupon kept his disobedient daughter in strict confinement, but was afterwards prevailed upon to give her
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Danaides<\/strong><\/span>

The fifty daughters of Danaus were betrothed to the fifty sons of Aegyptus, but were compelled by their father to promise him to kill their husbands, in the first night, with the swords which he gave them. They fulfilled their promise, and cut off the heads of their husbands with the exception of Hypermnestra alone, who was married to Lynceus, and who spared his life. She spared her husband because he had preserved her virginity that first night. <\/p>\n

Hypermnestra was punished by her father with imprisonment, but was afterwards restored to her husband Lynceus. (According to some accounts, Amymone and Bebryce also did not kill their husbands<\/em>). <\/p>\n

The Danaides buried the corpses of their victims, and were purified from their crime by Hermes and Athena at the command of Zeus<\/strong>. Afterwards their farher Danaus found it difficult to obtain husbands for his daughters, and he invited men to public contests, in which his daughters were given as prizes to the victors. Pindar mentions only forty-eight Danaides as having obtained husbands in this manner, for Hypermnestra and Amymone are not included, since the former was already married to Lynceus and the latter to Poseidon. <\/p>\n

Pausanias mentions, that Automate and Scaea were married to Architeles and Archander, the sons of Achaeus. According to the Scholiast on Euripides, the Danaides were killed by Lynceus together with their father.<\/p>\n

Strabo and others relate, that Danaus or the Danaides provided Argos with water, and for this reason four of the latter were worshiped at Argos as divinities; and this may possibly be the foundation of the story about the punishment of the Danaides.
\nLater poets relate that the Danaides were punished for their crime in Hades by being compelled everlastingly to pour water into a vessel full of holes. <\/p>\n

Ovid calls them by the name of the Belides, from their grandfather, Belus; and Herodotus, following the titles of the Egyptians, says, that they brought the mysteries of Demeter Thesmophorus from Egypt to the Peloponnese, and that the Pelasgian women there learned the mysteries from them.<\/p>\n

Their names are given by Apollodorus and Hyginus, though they are not the same in both lists.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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