Which group of women was condemned to fill a leaking jar in the underworld?

The Danaids were the group of women condemned to fill a leaking jar in the underworld.

The Danaids were the fifty daughters of Danaus, king of Libya, in Greek mythology. Their uncle Aegyptus proposed marriages between his fifty sons and Danaus’s daughters. Fearing treachery, Danaus ordered his daughters to kill their husbands on their wedding night. All obeyed except Hypermnestra, who spared her husband, Lynceus.

After their deaths, the Danaids received an apparently endless punishment: carrying water in a perforated vessel that could never be filled. The leaking container is often described as a jar, sieve, or pitcher, depending on the source and translation. Their punishment represents futile, repetitive labor and is frequently compared with Sisyphus’s endlessly rolling stone.

The myth is preserved in works associated with Apollodorus, Pindar, Pausanias, and Hyginus. Aeschylus also wrote a trilogy about the Danaid story. They are sometimes confused with the Harpies, Gorgons, or Furies, but those groups have different identities and myths.