1. Chapter Thirteen, Lecture One
Perseus and Myths of the Argive Plain

2. Argolid

3. Myths of the Argive Plain
Rich Bronze Age area
Mycenae
Lion’s gate
Beehive tombs
Tiryns

4. Io and Her Descendants
The Wanderings of Io

5. The Wanderings of Io The river god Inachus and Melia
Zeus’s passion and Hera’s jealousy
Lerna
the “cow”
Argus
Hermes (Argeïphontes)

6. The Wanderings of Io
Ionian Sea, Byzantium, the “Bosporus,” the Caucus Mountains, Egypt
Epaphus “he who has been touched”
= Isis
boôpis

7. Crimes of the Danaïds

8. Crimes of the Danaïds Epaphus + Memphis Belus has two sons
Libya + Poseidon
Agenor
Belus
Belus has two sons
Aegyptus, who rules in Arabia,
Danaüs, who rules in Libya

9. Crimes of the Danaïds Aegyptus has fifty sons
Danaüs has fifty daughters
the Danaïds
They flee to Argos to prevent the proposed marriages
Danaüs now king in Argos
The sons of Aegyptus in Argos

10. Crimes of the Danaïds “All but one” Hypermnestra spares Lynceus
Their heads buried in the Lernean swamp

11. Springs and the Dangers of Woman

12. Springs and the Dangers of Woman
Etiological to explain the swamps?
Also from another, related story
Amymonê and Poseidon
Theme of female resentment against fixed marriages
Also saved Argos from foreign rule

13. Springs and the Dangers of Woman
Historical connection between Argos and Egypt
The historical Danuna (Sea Peoples?) or 1200 BC, and the tribe of Dan
“Danaän used by Homer to refer to the Argives and Achaeans (words for the Greeks at Troy).
Hellenes only from Thessaly

14. End