Mini Myth: the Most Murderous Women of Mythology, the Danaids

In this mini myth we cover the murderous story of the Danaids, their father Danaus, and the very large extended family.

CW/TW: A general mythology warning: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

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Sources: Mythology by Edith Hamilton, The Greek Myths by Robert Graves, and the Library of Greek Mythology by Apollodorus.

All songs used are clips from by Lee Rosevere: “More On That Later”, ”Not Alone", "How I Used to See the Stars", "Night Caves", "The Nightmare", and/or "What's Behind the Door" from Music for Podcasts. All are copyright of the artist and licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; music from the artist found here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rosevere/.




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