In Greek mythology , Aethra or Aithra (Ancient Greek : Αἴθρα , romanized : Aíthra lit. [ 1] [ 2] pronounced [ǎi̯tʰra] [ 3]
Aethra, name of one of the Oceanids , the 3000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys . She is sometimes called the wife of Atlas and mother of the Pleiades , Hyades (more usually the offspring of Pleione ) and Hyas .[ 2] [ 4] [ 5]
Aethra (possibly same as above) is, in one source, called the wife of Hyperion , rather than Theia , and mother of Helios , Eos , and Selene .[ 6]
Aethra , daughter of King Pittheus of Troezen and mother of Theseus either by Poseidon [ 7] Aegeus .[ 8] [ 9] Aethra, wife of the Spartan Phalanthus . She fulfilled the prophecy given to her husband by her tears, after which he conquered Tarentum for himself.[ 10]
^ Robert Graves , The Greek Myths , (1955; 1960) index, s.v. "Aethra".^ a b Bane, p. 13 .
^ Bell, pp. 10–13.
^ Bell, p. 13.
^ Pherecydes , fr. 90c (Fowler 2013, p. 13); Ovid , Fasti 5.171 ; Hyginus , Fabulae 192 , De Astronomica 2.21.4 ; Eustathius on Homer , Iliad ^ Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
^ Plutarch , Theseus 3; Hyginus, Fabulae 14 ^ Apollodorus , 3.15.7 ; Hyginus, Fabulae 37 ^ Homer, Iliad 3.144
^ Pausanias , 10.10.6-8