@allison7809
Also fun fact: the wife who spared her husband only spared him because he respected her wish to remain a virgin.
@fatimahshahidk7432
The irony is that if their father wanted the marriages but they didn't they would still have been condemned. They're doomed if they listen to their father and doomed if they don't.
@cinderfox5217
Since there’s 49 of them I think like 3 of them should cover the holes and the rest should pour water inside
@patriciawilson2013
Geez, women were sort of treated like slaves too. No free will, no choices at all. Beautiful, thought provoking art work. 😢😭💔
@judyberry8693
Women in mythological were treated like crap
@deborahaviles708
The most frustrating afterlife ever!!!! What became of the wife with compassion? Besides, no bad back or pruney fingers for eternity? Happy Sunday, Mae & tysm, for all your fabulous videos, where the art is beautiful, but the stories behind the pieces are often out of this world!
@bronwynreijnders7205
Married against their will, ordered to commit murder, and then punished for it. Poor ladies. You just know that if they hadn't murdered their husband's, their father would have killed them for being disobedient or they would have been locked in a tower for conspiracy or something
@kathleenmccrory9883
Sounds like some man's revenge fantasy.
@pemcortes9467
Why should the obedient daughters be punished for saving their father,family and country?
@Caedynna
If the 50th sister committed to murdering her husband, would she not also be condemned to the underworld...? Would if have been better for all the sisters if none of them used their knives...? I don't know the full story, so maybe I am missing something. But it feels like the father set his daughters up for condemnation just because he didn't want his brother to win.
@kingace6186
This is a great representation of how women were treated in Ancient Greek. The mythos of their religions matched their culture.
@cardboard2night
This story is a reminder that Ancient Greece was a patriarchal society and most if not all of it's mythology mirrors that. Moreover, ancient greeks weren't a unified society, each Polis had it's own customs and traditions, for example something something noble for a Spartan would be seen as savage for an Athenian. In this case, this myth probably comes from Argos, and was probably farther changed in Ovid's Metamorphoses, to showcase this task of futility as punishment for going against your husband (the murder itself is usually is not that much of a "sin" in greek and roman mythology, and often is justified if done by a gods themselves - see Apollo and Artemis kill a bunch of kids in front of their mother).
@LisaImhoff-v8q
My paternal grandparents early 20th century. It took until my 40's as a mature woman to look back at that - my grandmother was forced to marry an unattractive small man she didn't love back in Eastern Europe 😒 as a result, she hated her life (as if life wasn't hard enough) and abused my father who in turn abused his 4 kids. No happy ending here either.
@anosmia6279
50 sisters?!?!? Their parents must reeeaaaally like eachother
@bananapanqueques
I find it poetic that they spend eternity together, even if occupied with a useless task
@JoeZUGOOLA
A punishment as harsh and pointless as your average 9-5
@bertbaker7067
"Billy Mays here with Flex Seal©, I'm in Hades with the Danaides....
@fierceperedur
Boy, those Pre-Raphaelites are a ray of sunshine! I love it!!❤
@rossjohnson1872
Mae, your vids are the best. They are deep healing moments.
@HistorybyMae