Aeschylus in his drama about the Danaïdes tells the story of the flight of the fifty daughters of Danaüs, confronted with the danger of having to marry the fifty sons of Aegyptus. The author points out how carefully the Greek poet has described the 'complex of Diana', of the woman who chooses the bow and arrow as her symbols and hunting as her unwomanly occupation. These daughters also have an Oedipal attachment to their father, from whom they do not want to be separated. The form of the eternal punishment to which the gods condemned them,—to fill with water a barrel pierced with many holes,—symbolizes their inability to perform a masculine task.