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Ancient Greek mythological figure
In
Greek mythology, Aegleis (
Ancient Greek: Αἰγληίς) was a daughter of
Hyacinthus who had emigrated from
Lacedaemon to
Athens. During the siege of
Athens by
Minos, in the reign of
Aegeus, she was with her sisters
Antheis,
Lytaea, and
Orthaea, were sacrificed on the tomb of
Geraestus the
Cyclops, for the purpose of averting a pestilence then raging at Athens.
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Notes
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Apollodorus, 3.15.8
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^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 8.
ISBN
9780874365818.
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^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867),
"Aegleis", in Smith, William (ed.),
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 27, archived from
the original on 2007-09-06, retrieved 2007-10-19
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References
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Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website.
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary.
ABC-Clio. 1991.
ISBN
9780874365818,
0874365813.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain:
Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aegleis".
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.