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MONARCH BUTTERFLY

The Monarch Butterfly, also known as the Milkweed Butterfly, the Wanderer Butterfly and the Black-veined Brown Butterfly, (Danaus plexippus) is a North American butterfly of the family Danaidae noted for its long migrations from north to south and back again. Through this migratory tendency, the Monarch Butterfly has also established itself in Australia and New Zealand and is sometimes seen in Europe.
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AMYMONE

Amymone was a daughter of Danaus. She and her sisters were sent to search for water when Poseidon caused a drought in the district of Argos. Whilst searching she threw a spear at a dear, missed it and hit a satyr which pursued her. She called to Poseidon for help. He came, drove off the satyr and produced a perennial spring for her at Lerna, where he met her.
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DANAIDES

In Greek mythology, the Danaides were the fifty daughters of Danaus who were forced to marry their fifty male cousins but killed them on their wedding night (except for Hypermestra who, genuinely loving her husband Lynceus spared him) with daggers provided by Danaus. The forty-nine murderers were subsequently condemned in the underworld to forever carry water in a sieve and try to fill a water jug with the water.
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DANAUS

In Greek mythology, Danaus was a king of Libya and the father of fifty daughters, the 'Danaides'. His brother Aegyptus, who had fifty sons, wanted a mass marriage, but Danaus fled with his daughters to Argos where he became king. Eventually Aegyptus' sons followed and demanded the Danaides. Danaus agreed, but gave each daughter a weapon with which she slew her husband on their wedding night, all except Hypermestra who spared her husband Lynceus. Lynceus killed Danaus and became king of Argos. In the underworld the Danaides were condemned to carry water in sieves for ever.
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HEROES

Heroes was a name applied by the Greeks to mythical personages who formed an intermediate link between men and gods. They were demigods, whose mortal nature only was destroyed by death, while the immortal ascended to the gods. The heroic age of Greece is considered to have terminated with the return of the Heraclidae into the Peloponnesus in 1100 BC. There were six great heroic races, descended respectively from Prometheus and Deucalion, Inachus, Agenor, Danaus, Pelops or Tantalus, and Cecrops. Individual families, as, for instance, the AEacidioe, Atridoe, Heraclidoe, belong to one or another of these races. Great sacrifices were not offered to the heroes, as they were to the Olympian deities; but groves were consecrated to them, and libations poured out on their sepulchres.
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