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At least he tells of Io's descendants, the Danaids, fifty women who choose to kill their husbands rather than marry cousins. One of them is swayed by love not to kill, and she gives birth to the kings of Argos.
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Prometheus also tells Io that one of her descendants will be Hercules, the greatest of heroes, who will someday free Prometheus himself. Embedded in the story is an explanation for the peacock’s beautiful tail.
Prometheus talks about Io's descendants, who will become kings of the city Argos. Io runs off again tortured by the gadfly, and the Oceanids chant about the dangers of marrying above one's own rank, expressing the hope that Zeus never takes an interest in them.
A brief dialogue reveals that Prometheus and Io are both victims of Zeus and that in the future Prometheus will eventually be freed by the descendants of Io. Prometheus asks Io to choose: Does she want to hear the rest of her own future, or the name of her descendant that will rescue him?
Zeus and Io’s son, Epaphos, becomes a king of Egypt, and Io’s grandson, Danaus, later returns to Greece, as Prometheus says, with his fifty daughters, the Danaids, who were betrothed to the fifty sons of Danaus’s twin brother.
Prometheus again demonstrates his gift of prophecy in revealing to Io that her torments will continue for some time, but will eventually end in Egypt, where she will bear a son named Epaphus, adding that one of her descendants several generations hence (the unnamed Heracles), will be the one who will release Prometheus himself from his own torment.
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The descendants of Io. Io eventually married Telegonus, the king of Egypt, and their grandson, Danaus, would return to Greece with his fifty daughters, the Danaides. Eleven generations afterwards, one of Io's descendants, the legendary Hercules, would set Prometheus free from his chains.
