Danaides 1903
"Ingenting som er kjøpt kan komme i nærheten av den tilbakevendende følelsen av takknemlighet for å ha familie og venner"
Av Courtland Milloy
John William Waterhouse has always been an artist I've appreciated for years, and I find this painting illustrates the proverb that are selected for this day in an excellent way.
The fifty daughters of Danaus. He fled with his daughters in fear of his twin brother Aegyptus, but the fifty sons of Aegyptos followed them to Argos and forced Danaus to give them his daughters in marriage. At their father's behest they murdered their husbands at their wedding night. The only one who spared her husband was Hypermnestra. In Hades, the girls were condemned eternally to pour water in a vessel with holes in its bottom.
Source: http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=52
More illustrations at http://noelmorata.blogspot.com/
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Ha en riktig trivelig helg
For this task...the girls need all their sisterly love they can muster!
SvarSlettaloha,
SvarSlettand very interesting interpretation of the quote, thank you for telling us this story, i really enjoyed it :)
thank you for teaching me something I did not know before. One wishes indeed that the water would be love. Please have a wonderful Saturday.
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