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	Danaus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character, twin brother of Aegyptus and son of Belus, a mythical king of Egypt.
		The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend (or re-foundation legend) of Argos, one of the foremost Mycenaean cities of the Peloponnesus.
		Danaus was angry with his disobedient daughter and threw her to the Argive courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danaus (772 words)

	Danaus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Danaus, or Danaos ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character (additional info and facts about Greek mythological character), twin brother of Aegyptus (additional info and facts about Aegyptus) and son of Belus (additional info and facts about Belus), a mythical king of Egypt.
		The myth of Danaus is a foundation legend (or re-foundation legend) of Argos (An ancient city in southeastern Greece; dominated the Peloponnese in the 7th century BC), one of the foremost Mycenaean (additional info and facts about Mycenaean) cities of the Peloponnesus (The southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC).
		The descendents of Danaus' "blameless" daughter Hypermnestra, through Danae (additional info and facts about Danae), led to Perseus, founder of Mycenae (An ancient city is southern Greece; center of the Mycenaean civilization), thus suggesting that Argos had a claim to be the metropolis, or "mother city" of Mycenae.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/danaus.htm (788 words)

	Danaus
		On the day of the wedding Danaus spoke to each of his daughters, and instructed them all to kill whoever they took for their husband, the plan was to murder them in the wedding bed.
		Danaus was angered when he learned of his daughters disobedience, so much that he threw her to the mercy of the Argive law courts, but she was acquitted.
		Danaus had an ingenious way of marrying off the rest of his daughters, by getting the suitors to run the length of a race-course, his daughters standing at the finishing line, each were chosen by the order in which the suitors finished the race.
	fyreangyl.tripod.com /Mythology/danaus.htm (435 words)

	DANAIDS, Greek Mythology Link.
		Belus 1 settled Danaus 1 in Libya, and Aegyptus 1 in Arabia.
		Danaus 1 felt threatened by Aegyptus 1 and his 50 sons, and decided that he and his 50 daughters would leave Egypt and emigrate to Argos, the country of their ancestor Io.
		Afterwards, Danaus 1 and his daughter Hypermnestra 1 were reconciled, and he united her to Lynceus 2, while giving his other daughters in marriage to the victors of an athletic contest.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/DANAIDS.html (965 words)

	Danaus
		The son of king Belus of Egypt, according to legend Danaus and his brother Aegyptus had 100 children, Danaus 50 girls (the Danaides, "daughters of Danaus") and Aegyptus 50 boys.
		The reason she gave for sparing Lynceus' life, and also helping him escape, was that he left her virginity untouched; she loved and respected him for this.
		Lynceus, the husband of Hypermnestra returned to Argos and killed Danaus, as revenge for the deaths of his brothers.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/d/danaus.html (450 words)

	AllRefer.com - DanaUs (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		DanaUs, who had 50 daughters, the DanaIds, and Aegyptus, who had 50 sons, ruled Libya and Arabia.
		DanaUs, forced to consent, instructed his daughters to kill their husbands on the wedding night.
		For their crime the other DanaIds were condemned in Hades to the eternal task of filling a sieve with water.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Danaus.html (257 words)

	Argos, Greek Mythology Link.
		Danaus 1 had originally been settled in Libya by his father, King Belus 1 of Egypt, while Danaus 1's brother Aegyptus 1 was settled in Arabia.
		As the brothers later quarrelled, and Danaus 1 feared the sons of Aegyptus 1, he built a ship—being the first to do so—and, having put his 50 daughters (the DANAIDS) on board, he fled to Hellas, where he took the kingdom of Argos from Gelanor, and named the inhabitants Danaans after himself.
		Danaus 1 is son of Belus 1, a king in Egypt, son of Libya, son of Epaphus 1, son of Io [see also DANAIDS].
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Argos.html (1492 words)

	DANAUS - LoveToKnow Article on DANAUS
		She was brought to trial by her father, acquitted and afterwards married to her lover.
		Being unable to find suitors for the other daughters, Danaus offered them in marriage to the youths of the district who proved themselves victorious in racing contests (Pindar, Pythia, Dl.
		According to another story, Lynceus slew Danaus and his daughters and seized the throne of Argos (schol.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DA/DANAUS.htm (292 words)

	Danaus -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Soon thereafter the 50 sons of Aegyptus arrived in Argos, and Danaus was forced to consent to their marriage with his daughters.
		Danaus, however, commanded each daughter to slay her...
		The American monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is the only species known to perform an annual two-way migration, the same individuals flying southward in the autumn and northward in the spring.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028682?tocId=9028682 (445 words)

	Danaides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Danaus was a Greek mythological character, twin of Aegyptus and son of Belus.
		Aegyptus commanded that his sons marry the Danaides and Danaus fled to Argos, ruled by King Pelasgus.
		The stand by with a stick and point out its details and let on to explain picture of a fallen and fettered angel who is ashamed of himself; an.
	www.termsdefined.net /da/danaides.html (436 words)

	Danaus - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Danaus ("sleeper") was a Greek mythological character, twin of Aegyptus and son of Belus.
		Aegyptus commanded that his sons marry the Danaides and Danaus fled to Argos, ruled by King Pelasgus or Gelanor.
		Danaus, possibly the same as the one above, had three daughters, Ialysa, Kamira and Linda, who were worshipped on Rhodes, where he stopped and founded a sanctuary to Athena on the way from Libya to Greece.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Danaus (290 words)

	In the Mysts of Shadowed Mysteries...famous Women in Mythology
		This was confirmed by an oracle who told Danaus that Aegyptus planned to have all his sons kill their wives.
		It was then that Danaus left the area, taking his fifty daughters with him, and he did this to evade his brother.
		Husbands that would not mind caring for a woman who has killed one of her previous husbands, who might be pregnant by the husband she killed, and who would not complain about who he was married to.
	www.blackdrago.com /women/danaides.htm (533 words)

	Danaus, Greece, Greek mythology
		Danaus was the son of king Belus and Queen Anchinoe of Egypt and his brother was Aegyptus.
		The brothers were on bad terms, and to make peace Aegyptus wanted his 50 sons to marry Danaus's 50 daughters, the Danaids.
		The girls refused, and together with their father they fled to Argus, where Danaus became king.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/danaus.htm (171 words)

	Search Results for danaus - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The American monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is the only species known to perform an annual two-way migration, the same individuals flying southward in the...
		Classical conditioning was studied early in the 20th century by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who observed that dogs salivate when food is placed in their mouths.
		Migration among the insects is best known in locusts and butterflies; a great number of other insects, however, including some of the smallest, are migrants.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=danaus&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (333 words)

	The Danaides
		Aegyptus had fifty sons and Danaus had fifty daughters (now what are the odds of that happening, I ask you!).
		The problem was that King Danaus didn't have the power to begin a war against his brother - Aegyptus had the man power (in more ways than one) to bring a serious conflict to Danaus.
		Danaus was still too afraid to oppose them, so he agreed to their demands and prepared a decadent wedding feast - but before they were married he brought his daughters around him.
	www.paleothea.com /Myths/Danaides.html (694 words)

	InsectNet.com Forum - Danaus plexippus? gilippus? Freak? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I opened the wings with my forceps, and noticed that the wings are brown (a queen's color) but the designs are of monarch.
		Danaus cleophile is simply another synonym of Danaus plexippus.
		According to my research "Danaus cleophile" is a different species and not the synonym of "Danaus plexippus" It is considered as a distinct species found in "Greater Antilles".
	www.insectnet.com /dcforum/DCForumID2/322.html (250 words)

	Monarch Parasites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Levels of infection of migrating monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) by the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (Neogregarinida: Ophryocystidae), and evidence of a new mode of spore transmission between adults.
		Instar susceptibility of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) to the neogregarine parasite, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha.
		Occurrence of a neogregarine protozoan, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha McLaughlin and Myers, in populations of monarch and queen butterflies.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~akdavis/MonarchParasites/research (451 words)

	Natural Heritage Information Centre -- Tracks and maintains data on rare species in Ontario
		Soaring flight of monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Danaidae), during the late summer migration in southern Ontario.
		Autumnal migration routes of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly (Danaus p.
		Aberrant autumnal migration of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly, Danaus p.
	nhic.mnr.gov.on.ca /MNR/nhic/elements/el_report.cfm?elid=181033 (276 words)

	Danaus Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Seven sons of a Phoenician woman by Aegyptus married seven daughters of an Ethiopian woman by Danaus: Agaptolemus married Pirene, Cercetes married Dorium, Eurydamas married Phartis, Aegius married Mnestra, Argius married Evippe, Archelaus married Anaxibia, Menemachus married Nelo.
		Sons of Aegyptus by Tyria married as wives daughters of Danaus by Memphis in virtue of the similarity of their names.
		Gorgophone, daughter of Danaus by Elephantis, married Proteus, son of Aegyptus by Argyphia.
	www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i493Sources.htm (346 words)

	Danaus
		When Pausanias visited Argos in the 2nd century AD, he related the succession of Danaus to the throne, judged by the Argives, who "from the earliest times...
		It has been suggested that the figure Danaus represents an actual Egyptian monarch, possibly identified with the pharaoh Akhenaton (as accounted by the ancient Greco-Aegyptian, Manetho).
		This leads some to believe that the Aegyptiads were an Egyptian army that was sent by Ay and Ammonian priests to punish Akhenaton and Atenists, and, following from this presumption, that the Danaids were Egyptians who followed Akenaton to Greece after his escape from Egypt.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Danaus.html (888 words)

	Danaus affinis malayana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Danaus affinis malayana ; Pinratana,1977 : 69, fig.D4.
		Danaus affinis malayanus ; Pinratana,1992 : 56,71, pl.71, fig.4.
		Danaus affinis malayana ; Metaye,1958a : 153-154, pl.1, fig.4.
	yutaka.it-n.jp /dan/30030010.html (34 words)

	Danaus
		Danaus genutia genutia, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
		Danaus eresimus montezuma ; [NACL], #4616a; [BCR]: 212, pl. 33
		Danaus chrysippus chrysippus, Butterflies in Indo-China [Yutaka Inayoshi]
	www.funet.com /pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/danaus/index.html (1688 words)

	Danaus plexippus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the genus Danaus, all male butterflies have a pair of eversible androconia at the abdominal tip (coremata).
		Danaus larvae feed on very toxic milkweeds that do not contain PAs, whereas the adult males visit some PA plants (Boraginaceae or Fabaceae) to sequester the alkaloid precursors of their pheromones: a male reared in captivity without access to PA plants is not able to mate.
		Danaus gilippus from Grenada and Barbados), the males of D.
	www.inra.fr /Internet/Produits/PAPILLON/papilion/nymphali/texteng/d_plexip.htm (425 words)

	OLYMPUS MIC-D: Darkfield Image Gallery - Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) Wing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the common name implies, the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is the king of the insect order Lepidoptera.
		Their migration is monitored by students through Monarch Watch, an international tagging program based at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and using numbered, 9-millimeter-diameter round, polypropylene tags placed on the underside of hindwings.
		This contrasts with their moth relatives that are nocturnal, and which usually rest with their wings flattened.
	www.mic-d.com /gallery/darkfield/monarchbutterflywinglow.html (625 words)

	Hypermnestra
		From Greek mythology, Hypermnestra was the only one of the fifty daughters of Danaus that did not kill her husband, and this is how it happened: Danaus and his fifty daughters fled in fear of his twin brother Aegyptus.
		Danaus, since he hated his brother, gave each of his daughters a pin to murder their husbands on their wedding night.
		Hypermnestra was the only one who spared her husband, Lynceus.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/h/hypermnestra.html (153 words)

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		DANAUS With one assent the Argives spake their will, And, hearing, my old heart took youthful cheer.
		DANAUS Dear children, well and wisely have ye prayed; I bid you now not shudder, though ye hear New and alarming tidings from your sire.
		A troop of soldiers accompanies him.) DANAUS High thanks, my children, unto Argos con, And to this folk, as to Olympian gods, Give offerings meet of sacrifice and wine; For saviours are they in good sooth to you.
	classics.mit.edu /Aeschylus/suppliant.pl.txt (7819 words)

	Canadian Biodiversity: Monarch butterfly
		The Monarch (Danaus plexippus) is probably one of the most charismatic insect species, a species generally liked by humans, usually due to being aesthetically pleasing.
		Spring remigration of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in north-central Florida: estimating population parameters using mark-recapture.
		Swengel, A. Population fluctuations of the Monarch (Danaus plexippus) in the 4th of July Butterfly Count 1977-1994.
	www.biology.mcgill.ca /undergra/c465a/biodiver/2001/monarch-butterfly/Monarch_web_page.htm (3976 words)

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