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Even a cautious reading of the subtext as a vehicle for legendary history suggests that a Pelasgian kingship in archaic Argos was overcome, not without violence, by seafarers out of Egypt ( compare the Sea Peoples ), whose leaders then intermarried with the local dynasty.

The descendants of Danaus ' " blameless " daughter Hypermnestra, through Danaë, led to Perseus, founder of Mycenae, thus suggesting that Argos had a claim to be the " mother city " of Mycenae.