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One of the Harpy sisters in Greek mythology
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Podarke (genus) .
In
Greek mythology , Aello (;
Ancient Greek : Ἀελλώ , Aellō means "storm" or "storm-swift" in ancient Greek) was one of the
Harpy sisters who would abduct people and torture them on their way to
Tartarus .
[1]
[2] It was claimed that she was the mother of
Achilles 's immortal steeds
Balius (Balios) and
Xanthus (Xanthos) by
Zephyrus , but some sources claimed it was really her sister
Celaeno .
She was also referred to as:
Aellopus (; Ἀελλόπους, Aellopous , "whirlwind-footed")
[3]
Aellope (; Αελλώπη, Aellōpē )
Podarge (; Ποδάργη, Podargē , "she who is foot-speedy")
[4]
Podarce (; Ποδάρκη, Podarkē , "she who is foot-safe"?)
[5]
Nicothoë (; Νικοθόη, Nikothoē , "she who is victory-speedy")
[6]
Aello was also the name of one of
Actaeon's dogs who destroyed their master when he was changed into a stag by the goddess of hunt,
Artemis .
[7]
Notes
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony 265;
Apollodorus , 1.2.6;
Tzetzes ad
Lycophron ,
167
^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary . ABC-CLIO. p. 9.
ISBN
9780874365818 .
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.21;
Hyginus , Fabulae
14.3
^
Homer ,
Iliad 16.148
^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.21
^
Ovid ,
Metamorphoses 3.206 ff.; Hyginus, Fabulae 18
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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 .
Gaius Julius Hyginus , Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Hesiod ,
Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Homer ,
The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.
ISBN
978-0674995796 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.
ISBN
978-0198145318 .
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Publius Ovidius Naso ,
Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.
Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Scholia to
Lycophron's Alexandra , marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881).
Online version at the Topos Text Project. .
Greek text available on Archive.org
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