Aglaus

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Aglaus (Gr. Ἀγλαός) was a semi-mythological poor citizen of Psophis in Arcadia,[1] whom the Delphic oracle pronounced to be happier than Gyges, king of Lydia, on ac­count of his contentedness, when the king asked the oracle, if any man was happier than he.[2][3] Pausanias places Aglaus in the time of Croesus.[4]

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  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Aglaus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 74 
  2. ^ Valerius Maximus, vii. 1. § 2
  3. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History vii. 47
  4. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece viii. 24. § 7

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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