Aglaea
Aglaea or Aglaïa (Greek: Ἀγλαΐα "splendor, brilliant, shining one") is the name of several figures in Greek mythology.
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The youngest of the Charites, Aglaea or Aglaia (Ἀγλαΐα) was one of three daughters of Zeus and either the Oceanid Eurynome or Eunomia, goddess of good order and lawful conduct. Her two sisters were Euphrosyne, and Thalia.[1][2] Together they were known as the Three Graces, or the Charites.[3] Aglaea was also known as Kharis ("the Grace") and Kale ("Beauty").[4]
Aglaea was the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence and adornment.[4] She and her sisters attended Aphrodite, and Aglaea sometimes acted as messenger for the goddess of love.[5]
Aglaea was married to Hephaestus after his divorce from Aphrodite,[6] and by him became mother of Eucleia (“Good Repute”), Eupheme (“Acclaim”), Euthenia (“Prosperity”), and Philophrosyne (“Welcome”).[7]
The asteroid 47 Aglaja is named for her. So is the butterfly genus Aglais Dalman, 1816.
[edit] Other characters
- Aglaea, a daughter of Asclepius and Epione. Her sisters were Hygieia, Panacea, Aceso, and Iaso,[8][9] and her brothers were Machaon, Podaleirios and Telesphoros.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 907
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1. 3. 1
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 14. 1 ff
- ^ a b Theoi.com: Kharis Algaia http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/KharisAglaia.html
- ^ Nonnus, Dionysiaca 24. 261 ff
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 945
- ^ Orphic Rhapsodies (fragments)
- ^ Greek Lyric Anonymous, Fragments 939 (Inscription from Erythrai) (trans. Campbell)
- ^ Suidas s.v. Epione (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon C10th A.D.)
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 2. 1
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 7. 8
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 2. 671
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 53. 2
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 97
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 68. 3
[edit] References
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Charites" p. 99
- Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Charis"
