Danaids

Danaus secretly informs his daughters of an oracle predicting that one of his sons-in-law would kill him; he therefore orders the Danaids to murder their husbands on their wedding night.

Sommerstein 2002, 89. In short order, it is revealed that forty-nine of the Danaids killed their husbands as ordered; Hypermnestra, however, loved her husband Lynceus, and thus spared his life and helped him to escape.

The Danaids would open the day after the wedding.

The people decide that the Danaids deserve protection, and they are allowed within the walls of Argos despite Egyptian protests.

The satyr play following this trilogy was titled Amymone, after one of the Danaids.