Editing Danaus (section)

===Murdered bridegrooms===
[[Image:Danaïdes tuant leurs maris BnF Français 874 fol. 170v.jpg|thumb|200px|right|The Danaides kill their husbands, miniature by [[Robinet Testard]].]]
When Aegyptus and his fifty sons arrived to take the Danaides, Danaus gave them in order 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 and subsequently buried the heads of their bridegrooms in [[Lerna]];<ref>The [[Helladic]] site at Lerna is related in myth to the pool of the [[Lernaean hydra]]; compare the heads ritually buried in marshlands in northern Europe: see [[Bog body]].</ref> 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 and Hypermnestra then began a dynasty of Argive kings (the [[List of kings of Argos#Danaid Dynasty|Danaid Dynasty]]).<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Danaus 2.1.5]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#168 168]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.19.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Danaus 2.19.6] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.20.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Danaus 2.20.7]</ref> Some sources relate that [[Amymone]], the "blameless" Danaid,<ref>Scholia on [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Ode'' 9.200</ref> and/or Bryce (Bebryce)<ref>[[Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]] on [[Dionysius Periegetes]], 805</ref> also spared their husbands.