Aglaurus
Aglaurus (/əˈɡlɔːrəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄγλαυρος, lit. 'dewfall' or 'shining dew'[1]) or Agraulus (/əˈɡrɔːləs/; Ἄγραυλος, lit. 'living in the fields' or the 'rustic one'[2]) is a name attributed to three figures in Greek mythology.[3]
- Aglaurus, the daughter of Actaeus, the first king of Attica. She married Cecrops and according to Apollodorus became the mother of Erysichthon, Agraulus, Herse, and Pandrosus;[4] other authors, however, including Pausanias and Hyginus, state that the eldest daughter of the couple is "Aglaurus" (see next entry), not "Agraulus".[5]
- Aglaurus, the daughter of Cecrops and the above Aglaurus, who was driven to suicide for ignoring a warning from the goddess Athena.[6]
- In the Fabulae, attributed to Hyginus, Aglaurus is the child resulting from an incestuous relationship between Erectheus and his daughter Procris. This genealogy is otherwise unknown.[7]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ connected to aglaos (bright, clear, or shining) combined with elements related to the air or dew (aura or rot roots)
- ↑ coming from agros (field, countryside)
- ↑ Bell, p. 16.
- ↑ Apollodorus, 3.14.2.
- ↑ Frazer, note 1 to 3.14.2; Pausanias, 1.2.6; Hyginus, Fabulae 166.
- ↑ Pausanias, 1.18.2
- ↑ RE, s.v. Aglauros, Agraulos (3); Hyginus, Fabulae 253
References
[edit]- 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.
- Bell, Robert E., Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-Clio. 1991. ISBN 9780874365818, 0874365813.
- 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.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I, Halbband 1, edited by Georg Wissowa, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1893. Wikisource.
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