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One of the fifty Danaides, a daughter of Danaus and Europa. According to Apollodorus1 and others, she killed Busiris, who was betrothed to her; whereas, according to Pausanias,2 she was married to Architeles, the son of Achaeus, who emigrated from Phthiotis in Thessaly to Argos with Archander.

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References

Notes

  1. The Library ii, 1.5.
  2. Description of Greece vii, 1.3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.