In the Suppliants, Aeschylus took a precise position against the rejection of eros by the Danaides; the proof lies in the use of the prophecy that Prometheus makes to Io in PV 865-869 regarding the rebellion of Hypermestra against her father’s orders: she chose to be called cowardly rather than a murderer because driven ἱμέρῳ “by the desire to make love”, in accordance with what Aphrodite herself declares in fr. 44 R.