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, all in the name of Artemis and with the support of the gods. They express the intent to kill themselves rather than submit, and marriage would be a submission, a surrender, rather than something they would willingly accept. This attitude helps explain subsequent events, notably the murder of their husbands once they are forced into the marriages they are resisting so strongly by their flight (Aeschylus 2-42).

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