Danaides

da-na'i-dez, in Greek legend, the fifty daughters of Danaus. They accompanied their father to Argos, but were followed thither by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, who sought them in marriage. The father consented to the marriage, but provided each daughter with a dagger, commanding her to murder her husband. They all obeyed except Hypermnestra, who allowed Lynceus, her husband, to escape. The Danaides were purified from their crimes by order of Zeus. Nevertheless, so the legend runs, they were punished for it after death, for in Hades they were doomed to draw water in sieves forever. See Danaus