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DANAUS , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Belus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Egypt, and twin-See also:brother of Aegyptus. He was See also:born at Chemmis (Panopolis) in Egypt, buthavingbeendriven out byhis brother he fled with his fifty daughters to See also:Argos, the See also:home of his ancestress lo. Here he became king and taught the inhabitants of the See also:country to dig See also:wells. In the meantime the fifty sons of Aegyptus arrived in Argos, and Danaus was obliged to consent to their See also:marriage with his daughters. But to each of these he gave a See also:knife with injunctions to slay her See also:husband on the marriage See also:night. They all obeyed except Hyperm(n)estra, who spared Lynceus. She was brought to trial by her See also:father, acquitted and afterwards married to her See also:lover. Being unable to find suitors for the other daughters, Danaus offered them in marriage to the youths of the See also:district who proved themselves victorious in racing contests (See also:Pindar, Pythia, ix. 117). According to another See also:story, Lynceus slew Danaus and his daughters and seized the See also:throne of Argos (schol. on See also:Euripides, See also:Hecuba, 886). By way of expiation for their See also:crime the Danaides were condemned to the endless task of filling with See also:water a See also:vessel which had no bottom. This See also:punishment, originally inflicted on those who neglected certain mystic See also:rites, was transferred to those who, like the Danaides, despised the mystic rite of marriage; cf. the water-bearing figure (Aovrpocbbpos) on the See also:grave of unmarried persons. The See also:murder of the sons of Aegyptus by their wives is supposed to represent the drying up of the See also:rivers and springs of Argolis in summer by the agency of the See also:nymphs.
See also:Apollodorus ii. 1 ; See also:Horace, Odes, iii. I I ; O. Waser, in Archiv See also:fur Religionswissenschaft, ii. Heft 1, 1899; articles in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie and W. H. See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie; See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell See also:Bonner, in Harvard Studies, xiii. (1902).
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