DANAIDES

Domain	Definition
Literature	Danaides (4 syl.). Daughters of Danaos (King of Argos). They were fifty in number, and married the fifty sons of Ægyptos. 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. This is an allegory. The followers of Danaos taught the Argives to dig wells, and irrigate their fields in the Egyptian manner. As the soil of Argos was very dry and porous, it was like a sieve. The names of the fifty Danaïdes and their respective husbands are as follows: Actaea Wife of Periphas. Adianta " Daïphron. Adyta " Menalces. Agave " Lycos. Amymone " Encelados. Anaxibia " Archelaos. Antodica " Clytos. Asteria " Choetos. Autholea " Cisseus. Automata " Architelos. Autonoe " Eurylochos. Brycea " Chthonios. Callidice " Pandion. Celeno " Hyxobios. Chrysippe " Chrysippos. Chrysothemis " Asteris. Cleodora " Lixos. Cleopatra " Agenor. Clio " Asterias. Critomedia " Antipaphos. Damone " Amyntor. Dioxippe " Ægyptos. Electra " Peristhenes. Erato " Bromios. Eupheno " Hyperbios. Eurydice " Dryas. Evippe " Imbros. Glauca " Alcis. Glaucippa " Potamon. Gorga " Hyppothooa. Gorgophon " Proteus. Helcita " Cassos. Hippodami'a " Ister. Hippodica " Idras. Hippomeduse " Alcmenon. Hyperippa " Hippocoristes. Hypermnestra " Lynceus. Iphimedusa " Euchenor. Mnestra " Egios. Ocypete " Lampos. Oime " Arbelos. Pharte " Eurydamas. Pilarga " Idmon. Pirene " Agaptolemos. Podarca " �neus. Rhoda " Hippolytos. Rhodia " Chalcedon. Sthenela " Sthenelos. Stygna " Polyctor. Theano " Phanthes. Lynceus (2 syl.), the one saved by his wife, is marked with an asterisk (*). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Danaides

Danaus was a Greek mythological character, twin of Aegyptus and son of Belus. He had fifty daughters, the Danaides, and Aegyptus had fifty sons. Aegyptus commanded that his sons marry the Danaides and Danaus fled to Argos, ruled by King Pelasgus. When Aegyptus and his sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus gave them to spare the Argives the pain of a battle. However, he instructed his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night. Forty-nine followed through, but one, Hypermnestra refused because her husband, Lynceus, honored her wish to remain a virgin. Danaus was angry with his disobedient daughter and threw her to the Argive courts. Aphrodite intervened and saved her. Lynceus later killed Danaus as revenge for the death of his brothers. Lynceus and Hypermnestra then began a dynasty of Argive kings (the Danaan Dynasty). In some versions of the legend, the Danaides were punished in the underworld by being forced to carry water through a jug with holes, or a sieve, so the water always leaked out.

The remainined forty-nine Danaides had their grooms chosen by an unusual method. A foot-race was held and the order in which the potentials finished decided their wives.

Anagrams: DANAIDES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-i-n-s"
	-1 letter: dandies, naiades.
	-2 letters: dedans, desand, naiads, sadden, sained, sanded.
	-3 letters: aided, aides, anise, ansae, aside, dadas, deads, deans, dined, dines, ideas, nadas, naiad, nided, nides, saned, sedan, sided, snide.
	-4 letters: adds, aide, aids, ains, anas, ands, anes, anis, ansa, asea, dada, dads, dais, dead, dean, deni, dens, died, dies, dine, dins, ends, idea, ides.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-i-n-s"
	+2 letters: andradites, candidates, landladies, vandalised.
	+3 letters: aggrandised, bastinadoed, candidacies, candidiases, desalinated, disarranged, grandaddies, haciendados, handmaidens, maidenheads, pasquinaded, scandalised, scandalized, standardise, standardize.
	+4 letters: candidatures, degradations, disadvantage, granddaddies, standardised, standardises, standardized, standardizes.
	+5 letters: administrated, dastardliness, disadvantaged, disadvantages, noncandidates.
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