Aglaia (mythology)

Aglaea (/əˈɡliːə/) or Aglaïa (/əˈɡlaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀγλαΐα means 'splendor, brilliant, shining one'^[1]) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology:^[2]

• Aglaia, 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 . 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]

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• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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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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