Editing Amymone (section)

=== As a Danaid ===
According to Apollodorus, she is the wife of Prince Enceladus, whom she slew on their wedding night.<ref name=":0" /> This would have made her one of the 49 Danaids who killed their husbands, with only Hypermnestra refusing.<ref>"[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0061:poem=14&highlight=hypermnestra Commentary on the Heroides of Ovid: Hypermnestra]". ''Perseus Digital Library''. Retrieved 2025-03-28.</ref> However, she has also been named as the innocent Danaid who refused to kill her husband, therefore either making Amymone and Hypermnestra the same figure, or replacing Hypermnestra.<ref>Scholia on [[Pindar]], ''Pythian Ode'' 9.200</ref> In this version of the myth, her husband would have been [[Lynceus (mythology)|Lynceus]] and she would have given birth to [[Abas (son of Lynceus)|Abas]], the first of the [[List of kings of Argos|Danaid Dynasty]] that led to [[Perseus]], the legendary founder of [[Mycenae]].<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/141#4.663 4.673]; [https://topostext.org/work/141#5.128 5.138] & [https://topostext.org/work/141#5.236 5.236]</ref> 

Amymone is represented by a water pitcher, a reminder of the sacred springs and lake of Lerna and of the copious wells that made Argos the "well-watered" and, by contrast, a reminder that her sisters were forever punished in [[Tartarus]] for their murderous crimes by being forever forced to carry a jug to fill a bathtub (pithos) without a bottom (or with a leak) to wash away their sins.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danaus, King of Argos |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Danaus-Greek-mythology |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=Britannica}}</ref>