Week 7 Post 1

     Week 7 Post 1 

Hypermnestra:

-50 sisters wed 50 brothers and kill them at father's command

-She gets married to a strange man at age 15 

-Suggestion that women destroy families

-Father tells Hypermnestra to kill her husband, she refuses and then husband kills her sisters 

-Daughters of Danaus are deemed 'worthless' because they are non-virgins who are unmarried and unable to have children. 

-'Should have listened to her father'

Source: 

Her Kind: Stories of Women from Greek Mythology