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Chorus of the daughters of Danaus: Our statement is brief and clear. We declare that we are Argive by race, the offspring of the cow that bore a fine child; and to show that this is true, we will add proofs to what we have said.
Pelasgus: What you say, strangers, is unbelievable for me to hear, that this group of yours is of Argive descent. You bear more resemblance to the women of Libya – certainly not to those of this country. The Nile, too, might nurture such a crop; and a similar stamp is struck upon the dies of Cyprian nomad women in India, near neighbours ot the Ethiopians,* who saddle their way across country on camels that run like horses, and then the man-shunning, meat-eating Amazons – if you were equipped with bows, I'd be very inclined to guess that you were them. If you explain to me, I may understand better how your birth and descent can be Argive.
Chorus: They say that once upon a time a certain Io was keyholder** of the temple of Hera in this land of Argos.
Pelasgus: She certainly was; that is the general and dominant tradition.
Pelasgus: She certainly was; that is the general and dominant tradition.
Chorus: Is there perhaps also a story about Zeus making love to a mortal?
Pelasgus: Yes, and their embraces did not remain concealed from Hera.
Chorus: (Two of my arrows have already hit the mark.)
Pelasgus: How then did this quarrel between the royal pair end?
Chorus: The Argive goddess turned the woman into a cow.
– Aeschylus, from Suppliants (ca. 470-460 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*Greeks gave the name "Ethiopians" not only to the black people of inner Africa, but also to a people whom they called "eastern Ethiopians," straight-haired and living near the Indians. In Prometheus the two seem to be identified, as if there were continuous land linking south Asia directly to the upper Nile.
** i.e. priestess