Erato, a
Libyan princess, was one of the daughters of King
Danaus and
naiadPolyxo. Under the command of their father, along with her sisters except
Hypermnestra, Erato married and murdered her husband
Bromios[5] or
Eudaemon[6] at the night of their wedding.
Erato, a
Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King
Thespius and
Megamede[8] or by one of his many wives.[9] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the
Cithaeronian lion,[10] Erato with her other sisters, except for one,[11] all laid with the hero in a night,[12] a week[13] or for 50 days[14] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[15] Erato bore
Heracles a son,
Dynastes.[16]
Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
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