Capitolo 2
you/he/she has been put in the present volume before. The young girl,
accompanied by their father Danaes, you/he/she is run away from Egypt and you/he/she has arrived
to Argos, to take there sanctuary and to avoid capture from them
relatives that pursue and applicants. During the play, the
the ship of pursuers reaches recovery the young girl for a forced marriage
in Egypt. The action of the play turns on the attitude of the king
and people of Argos, in perspective of this deliberate abduction. The king
it puts the question to the popular vote and the application of the applicants
you/he/she has unanimously refused: the play closes with thanks and the gratitude
from the fugitives that, in lyric efforts of the calm beauty,
you seem to refer the whole question of their marriage to the subsequent one
decision of the of the, and, particularly, of Aphrodite.
Of the second portion of the Trilogy we can speak only conjecturally.
There is a passage in the _Prometheus Bound_ (the ll. 860-69) in that
we learn that the young girl were somehow reclaimed from the applicants, and
what everybody, omits one, killed their bridegrooms in the night of marriage.
There is a weak trace, among the Fragments of Aeschylus, of a play
Called _Thalamopoioi_,--i.e. _The Preparers of Chamber_,--which
you/he/she is been able to report well to this tragic scene. His/her surly wish of title
you call to all the classical readers the magnificent, although terrible one back,
version of the legend, in the final rooms of the eleventh poem in
the third book of the _Odes_ of Horace. Probably the final play was
Called _The Danaides_, and it described the absolution of his/her/their brides
through of the intervention of Aphrodite: a fragment of his survives,
in that the goddess appears coop begging his/her special prerogative.
The legends to which you/they commit the daughters of Danaus an eternity
criminal punishment in Hades is, apparently, slowwer origin. Homer is silent
on such some criminal punishment; and Pindar, the contemporary of Aeschylus, indeed
it describes once him suppliant young girl as installed honourably