Characters in Greek mythology
Aglaea () or Aglaia (; Ancient Greek : Ἀγλαΐα means 'splendor, brilliant, shining one'[ 1] ) is the name of several figures in Greek mythology :[ 2]
Aglaea , one of the three Charites .
Aglaea or Ocalea , daughter of Mantineus . She married Abas and had twins: Acrisius and Proetus .[ 3]
Aglaea, mother of Melampus and Bias by Amythaon .[ 4]
Aglaea, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede [ 5] or by one of his many wives.[ 6] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion ,[ 7] Aglaia with her other sisters, except for one,[ 8] all laid with the hero in a night,[ 9] a week[ 10] or for 50 days[ 11] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[ 12] Aglaia bore Heracles a son, Antiades .[ 13]
Aglaea, a nymph who became the mother, by King Charopus of Syme , of Nireus .[ 14] [ 15] The latter was second in beauty among Achaeans after Achilles .
^ Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition . Penguin Books Limited. pp. Index s.v. Aglaia. ISBN 9780241983386 .
^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary . ABC-CLIO. pp. 15–16. ISBN 9780874365818 .
^ Apollodorus , 2.2.1
^ Diodorus Siculus , 4.68.3
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes , Chiliades 2.222
^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
^ Pausanias , 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
^ Athenaeus , 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
^ Homer , Iliad 2.672 ; Diodorus Siculus , 5.53.2 ; Hyginus , Fabulae 97 ; Tzetzes ad Lycophron , 1011
^ Lucian, De Syria Dea 40 : only Aglaia was mentioned as the parent