Lynceus of Argos
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Lynceus was named as a descendant of Belus through his father Aegyptus, who was the twin brother of Danaus, father of fifty daughters called Danaïdes. He had forty-nine siblings and out of them had five full brothers namely Proteus, Busiris, Enceladus Lycus and Daiphron through their mother Argyphia, a woman of royal blood. By Hypermnestra, Lynceus became the father of Abas, who succeeded him as king.
Mythology
Lynceus's father, Aegyptus, commanded that his sons should marry the Danaïdes, but Danaus, together with his daughters, fled to
Abas. In some versions of the legend, the Danaïdes, minus Hypermnestra (or sometimes alternately Amymone), were punished in Tartarus by being forced to carry water through a jug with holes, or a sieve, so the water always leaked out.[1][2][3]
Argive genealogy in Greek mythology
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See also
References
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.2, 1.9.16, 3.9.2 & 3.10.3
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica1.151-155
- Metamorphoses8.304
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