Danaus
mythological figure · 8 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages
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Stromata
Mythological figure used as a chronological marker.
He comes eleven generations above, from Inachus and Moses, after Danaus, as we shall show a little further on.
Under Sthenelus were both the kingdom of Amphictyon and the coming of Danaus to the Peloponnese, and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus, whom "first," says Homer, "the cloud-gatherer Zeus begot," and the carrying back of Europa from Phoenicia to Crete.
Stoic Paradoxes
Mythological king said to have had fifty daughters, invoked as an example of great need for money.
if, as they say of Danaus, there are fifty daughters, then so many dowries call for a great sum of money:
Orestes
Mythical founder of the Argive people, whose original gathering place is cited by the Messenger as the site of Orestes' trial.
I saw a crowd going and taking their seats on the height, where they say Danaus first gathered his people for a meeting, making amends to Aegyptus.
Helen
Legendary exile from Egypt who became ruler of Argos before the Trojan War.
and in consequence, we experienced a change so great that, although in former times any barbarians who were in misfortune presumed to be rulers over the Greek cities (for example, Danaus, an exile from Egypt, occupied Argos, Cadmus of Sidon became king of Thebes, the Carians colonized the islands, and Pelops, son of Tantalus, became master of all the Peloponnese), yet after that war our race expan …
Panathenaicus
A mythic figure associated with the seizure of Argos.
For he conceived of his mission in terms so lofty that he was not satisfied with making up his army from all the men in private station whom he desired to have from each of the cities of Hellas, but even persuaded men of the rank of kings, who were accustomed to do in their own states whatsoever they pleased and to give orders to the world at large, to place themselves under his command, to follow …
Nemean
Mythical king of Argos, legendary founder credited with fifty daughters, named as origin of the city's fame.
Graces, sing of the city of Danaus and his fifty daughters on their splendid thrones, Hera’s Argos, a home suitable for a god;
Pythian
The legendary king of Argos who, needing to marry off his forty-eight surviving daughters quickly, arranged a footrace among suitors, cited here as precedent for the Libyan bridal contest.
But her father, cultivating for his daughter a more renowned marriage, heard how Danaus once in Argos had found for his forty-eight daughters, before noon overtook them, a very swift marriage.
Apologeticum
Legendary figure who crossed into Argos, used as the earliest pagan chronological marker.
By nearly four hundred years — for it is seven less — he comes before Danaus, himself the most ancient among you;
He is found earlier by about three hundred years than that most ancient Danaus among you, who crossed over into Argos;