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Charon the Boatman, Cerberus the hellhound and the river Styx, source of the water carried perpetually by the Danaides in leaky jars. Scene from Wrath of the Gods.


Danaides (duh-NAY-i-deez). The fifty daughters of King Danaus of Argos, who were married on a single occasion to fifty suitors. As instructed by their father, all but one of them murdered their husbands on their wedding night. As a result, they were condemned to an afterlife of unending labor, carrying water from the Styx in leaky jars.