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Aglaea () or Aglaïa (;
Ancient Greek : Ἀγλαΐα means 'splendor, brilliant, shining one'
[1] ) is the name of several figures in
Greek mythology :
[2]
Aglaea , one of the three
Charites .
Aglaea, the goddess/personification of the glow of good health, and a daughter of
Asclepius and
Epione . Her sisters are
Hygieia ,
Panacea ,
Aceso , and
Iaso ,
[3]
[4] and her brothers were
Machaon ,
Podaleirios and
Telesphoros .
Aglaea or
Ocalea , daughter of
Mantineus . She married
Abas and had twins:
Acrisius and
Proetus .
[5]
Aglaea, mother of
Melampus and
Bias by
Amythaon .
[6]
Aglaea, a
Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King
Thespius and
Megamede
[7] or by one of his many wives.
[8] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the
Cithaeronian lion ,
[9] Aglaia with her other sisters, except for one,
[10] all laid with the hero in a night,
[11] a week
[12] or for 50 days
[13] as what their father strongly desired it to be.
[14] Aglaia bore
Heracles a son,
Antiades .
[15]
Aglaea, a
nymph . She is the mother, by
Charopus , of
Nireus .
[16]
Notes
^
Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition . Penguin Books Limited. pp. Index s.v. Aglaia.
ISBN
9780241983386 .
^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary . ABC-CLIO. pp. 15–16.
ISBN
9780874365818 .
^ Greek Lyric Anonymous, Fragments 939 (Inscription from Erythrai) (trans. Campbell)
^
Suidas s.v. Epione (trans. Suda On Line)
^
Apollodorus , 2.2.1
^
Diodorus Siculus , 4.68.3
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10;
Tzetzes , Chiliades 2.222
^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
^
Pausanias , 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3,
f.n. 51
^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
^
Athenaeus , 13.4 with
Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3,
f.n. 51
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades
2.224
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
^
Homer ,
Iliad 2.671; Diodorus Siculus, 5.53.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 97
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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
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ABC-Clio . 1991.
ISBN
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ISBN
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