“Forty-nine of the daughters did as their father wished. Only one, Hypermenestra, refused to kill her husband, Lynceus. Lynceus had declined to force himself on his unwilling bride, and Artemis appeared to her and told her to spare his life.
“Danaus, furious, prosecuted his daughter in the Argive court for disobeying her father—and her king. Only the timely intervention of Aphrodite saved her.”
“What happened to Danaus?” asked Mateo. “He prosecuted Hypermenestra, but what about his own conspiracy to murder his sons-in-law?”
“Those were primitive times, and the laws somewhat unclear,” said Io. “On the one hand, Aegyptus’s sons would have used force to carry away the Danaids, and many lives would have been lost. Aegyptus had no legal right to control the marriage of his brother’s daughter
