Characters in Greek mythology
Aglaea () or Aglaïa (; 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, 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 Mantineus . 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 who became the mother, by King Charopus of Syme , of Nireus .[ 16] [ 17] 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 .
^ Greek Lyric Anonymous, Fragments 939 (Inscription from Erythrai) (trans. Campbell)
^ Suidas s.v. Epione (trans. Suda On Line)
^ 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