Aesyle (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aesyle, also called Phaesyle (Ancient Greek: Φαισύλη Phaisúlē means 'shining' from phainô) was one of the three or five Hyades, sisters that were rain-bringing nymphs. She was the sister of Eudora and Ambrosia[1], Polyxo and Coronis,[2] and Cleeia and Phaeo.[3] They were called the daughters of the Titan Atlas by either the Oceanids Aethra[4] or Pleione,[5] or of Hyas and Boeotia.[6]

  1. ^ Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 1156
  2. ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.1 with Asclepiades as the authority
  3. ^ Scholium on Aratus' Phenomena = Hesiod fr. 227a Most, pp. 300, 301 = Hesiod fr. 291 MW.
  4. ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Musaeus as the authority
  5. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 192
  6. ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.21.4 with Alexander as the authority