Daughters of Danaus
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daughters of Danaus · the Danaids · the daughters of Danaus
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Stromata
The Danaid daughters, cited as arming themselves before the Nile.
The author of the Danaid says the like concerning the daughters of Danaus:
And then swiftly the daughters of Danaus armed themselves before the fair-flowing river of lord Nile,
The Histories
Mythological daughters of Danaus, said to have founded the temple of Athena at Lindus while fleeing the sons of Egyptus.
what he gave to Lindus was not out of friendship for anyone, but because the temple of Athena in Lindus is said to have been founded by the daughters of Danaus, when they landed there in their flight from the sons of Egyptus.
The Rights of War and Peace
Mythological women fleeing Egypt in Aeschylus's play, addressed regarding their legal status.
This was a received opinion in ancient times, as we find from the language of Aeschylus, in whose Tragedy of the Suppliants, the King of Argos, addressing a number of the daughters of Danaus, on their coming from Egypt, says, “If the sons of Egypt exercise controul over you, maintaining that they are authorised to do so by the law of the state, as being the nearest allied by blood, who can resist them?