CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Acrisius, Serifos, Tiryns
30 Jul 2016
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Centers of wealth and power in the bronze age. When hera comes to investigate, zeus changes io to a cow. Hera asks to receive the cow as a gift. Hermes kills argus (argeiphontes) and hera places argus" eyes in the tail of the peacock. Hera sends a gadfly to tormented by the gadfly. Prometheus predicts that io will be free of her torments and will regain her human form in egypt when zeus will touch her with his hands. She will give birth to epaphus ( he who has been touched ), the future king of. Aegyptus had fifty sons and danaus fifty daughters, the danaids. Aegyptus suggested that his fifty sons marry the fifty daughters of danaus. The latter fled with his daughters to argos where he became a king. The fifty sons of aegyptus followed and demanded to marry the danaids. Danaus instructed his daughters to murder their husbads on their wedding night.
