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danaid - large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste

danaid butterfly

butterfly - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

Danaidae, family Danaidae - small family of usually tropical butterflies: monarch butterflies

Danaus plexippus, milkweed butterfly, monarch butterfly, monarch - large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings; the larvae feed on milkweed

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butterfly danaid butterfly Danaidae Danaides Danaus plexippus family Danaidae milkweed butterfly monarch monarch butterfly	The sons of Aegyptus are represented in the play by a number of negative stereotypes: their blackness is emphasized and associated with death; they are savage and lustful, and, along with the Danaids, have no appreciation of the democratic institutions of Greece, expressing surprise, for example, that the king must consult a deliberative body of Greek citizens instead of simply acting on his own advice. Egypt in Greco-Roman history and fiction * by Nimis, Stephen / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics And the fifty Danaids, who murdered their husbands, were condemned to draw water from a well and carry it some distance in a vain attempt to fill a cistern, for the buckets had holes in them, and all the water would leak out along the way. Hellenic damnation and other afterlives. (Classical Blather) by Humez, Nick / Verbatim He stoically attended medical lectures, on his way to adding "one more obscure name to the lamentable catalogue of bad doctors" when, one evening, he heard Salieri's Danaids at the Paris Opera. Successes just missed: the career of Hector Berlioz by Penrose, James F. / New Criterion	Dampne dampness Dampy Damrosch damsel damsel bug damselfish damselfly damson damson cheese damson plum damson plum tree Dan Dan River dan runner Dan. Dana Danae Danaë Danaea danaid danaid butterfly Danaidae Danaide Danaides Danaids Danaite Danakil Danalite Danau Danaus Danaüs Danaus plexippus Danburite Danbury Danby dance dance band dance floor dance hall dance lesson dance master dance music dance of death dance orchestra dance palace dance school dance step dance theatre dance therapy danceable	Dana, Richard Henry Dana, Richard Henry Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care Bone Marrow Transplant Program DANA-WH Danaan Danaans Danae Danae Danae Danaë Danaë Danaé Fashion Boutique Danaë Zeus Danaea Danaher Industrial Controls Group Danaher Motion Saro, AB Danai Danai danaid danaid danaid butterfly Danaidae Danaidae Danaide Danaide Danaides Danaides Danaids Danaii Danailov, Georgi Todorov Danainae Danaite Danakil Danakil Danakils Danakils Danalite Danalite DANAM DANAMI Danamodal Danamodal Danamodal Danamodal Danamombe Danang Danang Danang Officers Open Mess Danang, Vietnam Danang, Vietnam Danann Danann Danaoi Danaos Danaos Danaparoid Danaparoid sodium Danas

The sons of Aegyptus are represented in the play by a number of negative stereotypes: their blackness is emphasized and associated with death; they are savage and lustful, and, along with the Danaids, have no appreciation of the democratic institutions of Greece, expressing surprise, for example, that the king must consult a deliberative body of Greek citizens instead of simply acting on his own advice.

Egypt in Greco-Roman history and fiction * by Nimis, Stephen / Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics

And the fifty Danaids, who murdered their husbands, were condemned to draw water from a well and carry it some distance in a vain attempt to fill a cistern, for the buckets had holes in them, and all the water would leak out along the way.

Hellenic damnation and other afterlives. (Classical Blather) by Humez, Nick / Verbatim

He stoically attended medical lectures, on his way to adding "one more obscure name to the lamentable catalogue of bad doctors" when, one evening, he heard Salieri's Danaids at the Paris Opera.

Successes just missed: the career of Hector Berlioz by Penrose, James F. / New Criterion

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