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Siren in Greek mythology
In
Greek mythology, Aglaope
[1] (
Ancient Greek: Ἀγλαόπη), also called Aglaopheme
[2] (Ἀγλαοφήμη) and Aglaophonos
[3] (Ἀγλαόφωνος), is the name of one of the
Sirens.
[4] Her name means "with lambent voice". Aglaope was attested as a daughter of the
river-god
Achelous and the
Muse
Melpomene
[5] or her sister
Terpsichore
[6] or
Sterope, daughter of King
Porthaon of
Calydon.
[7] She may have two or one sister(s), namely
Peisinoe
[8] or
Molpe,
[3] or just
Thelxiepeia
[9] or
Thelxinoe.
[3]
Notes
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^
Apollodorus,
Epitome
7.18;
Tzetzes on
Lycophron, 7l2
-
^
Eustathius, Commentaries 1709
- ^
a
b
c Scholia on Apollonius, 4.892 =
Hesiod,
Ehoiai fr. 47
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^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. p. 16.
ISBN
9780874365818.
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^ Apollodorus, Epitome
7.18;
Hyginus, Fabulae
Preface
-
^
Apollonius, 4.892;
Nonnus, 13.309
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^ Apollodorus, 1.7.10
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^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 7l2
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^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 7l2; Eustathius, Commentaries 1709
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.
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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.
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John Tzetzes, Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
Online version at theio.com
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Nonnus of Panopolis,
Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse (1863-1950), from the Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1940.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca. 3 Vols. W.H.D. Rouse. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1940-1942.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library