Aglaia (mythology)

Aglaea (/əˈɡliːə/) or Aglaïa (/əˈɡlaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Ἀγλαΐα "splendor, brilliant, shining one") is the name of several figures in Greek mythology:

• Aglaia, 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,^[1][2] and her brothers were Machaon, Podaleirios and Telesphoros.
• Aglaea or Ocalea, daughter of Mantineus. She married Abas and had twins: Acrisius and Proetus.^[3]
• Aglaea, daughter of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Antiades.^[4]
• Aglaea, a nymph. She is the mother, by Charopus, of Nireus.^[5][6][7]
• Aglaea, mother of Melampus and Bias by Amythaon.^[8]

References

1. ↑ Greek Lyric Anonymous, Fragments 939 (Inscription from Erythrai) (trans. Campbell)
2. ↑ Suidas s.v. Epione (trans. Suda On Line) (Byzantine Greek lexicon 10th century AD)
3. ↑ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 2. 1
4. ↑ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 7. 8
5. ↑ Homer, Iliad, 2. 671
6. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 53. 2
7. ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae, 97
8. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 4. 68. 3