| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Cleopatra" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager, is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone. 2. A Danaid, who was betrothed to Etelces or Agenor. There are two other mythical personages of this name in Apollodorus iii. Greek |
"Danaides" | Greek | Daughters of Danaus. They were fifty in number, and married the fifty sons of ?gyptos. They all but one murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were punished in the infernal regions by having to draw water everlastingly in sieves from a deep well. |
| Goddess name "Danaids" | Greek | The goddesses of fountains & water |
"Dåñuś" | Greek | The father of the Danaids, 50 beautiful women |
| God name "Dryops" | Greek | A son of the river-god Spercheius, by the Danaid Polydora or, according to others, a son of Lycaon (probably a mistake for Apollo) by Dia, the daughter of Lycaon, who concealed her new-born infant in a hollow oak tree. |
| King name "Lynceus" | Greek | 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 Abas. Greek |
"Ocypete" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings, one a Danaid, and the other a Harpy. Greek |
"Pharis" | Greek | Or Phares, a son of Hermes and the Danaid Philodameia, by whom he became the father of Telegone. He is the reputed founder of the town of Pharae in Messenia. Greek |
"Theano" | Greek | One of the Danaides. Greek |
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