Danaides in A Sentence

    1

    By way of expiation for their crime the Danaides were condemned to the endless task of filling with water a vessel which had no bottom.

    2

    Some of the titles of his plays, Danaides, Actaeon, Alcestis, Tantalus, show that he treated mythological as well as contemporary subjects.

    3

    This punishment, originally inflicted on those who neglected certain mystic rites, was transferred to those who, like the Danaides, despised the mystic rite of marriage; cf.