After Danaus’s fifty daughters refused to marry their fifty cousins, he took them to Argos for safety. However, their cousins followed them, and besieged them into submission. At the wedding feast, Danaus supplied each of his daughters with a knife, and that night they slew their domineering husbands - all except Hypermnestra, who helped her Lynceum to get away.

Danaus found better husbands for his forty-nine widowed daughters by offering them as prizes in an athletics competition. But when years had passed and the girls went down to the Underworld, the rulers of that place imposed a penalty for their crime, condemning them to spend eternity filling a bath of purification that could never be filled.

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